How To Teach Leadership Skills To Others

Being able to build and develop your leadership skills over a career is a fantastic achievement

. Not only has the pursuit in professional and personal development shown you that you possess terrific and rare control over your behaviour, attitude and beliefs, but it also shows that you competed well and came out a winner.

Now, the only thing better than acquiring leadership skills, is being able to pass them on, and by that, I mean teaching others about leadership.

Now this can take two different forms, you can either quite literally teach students about leadership, or you can coach leadership skills in the job.

The first is perhaps not the first place you'd imagine where you'd learn leadership, but yes, the University does have a good head-start in being able to impart leadership skills. Why is this? Well, almost every degree discipline these days requires a level of team work. The more the degree is business orientated, the more team-work it will entail.

As a graduate myself, I can attest to the valuable skills you can get from leading a team during your university degree. For a start, many of the students will be from a foreign university/country, which can bring about language/communication difficulties, which again, is all great experience.

So, what does this have to do with teaching leadership skills with others? Well, a University tutor can take a rather proactive role in helping these team leader with their responsibilities.

The second option is for your be effectively a 'mentor' to the person you would like to teach leadership skills. Perhaps you arrange a 'shadowing' day, whereby they can see how you work, and what issues you have to deal with. However, this isn't a method for scaring your younger and less experienced counterpart! You must focus, throughout the day, on their learning needs. If they are having trouble finding the confidence in picking up the phone and talking to clients, for instance, then you could talk your 'student' through how you first plucked up the courage to have those difficult conversations over the phone, or even... how you manage to now!

In all, the best teachers of leadership, are those who have successfully done so before. Therefore if you have the leadership skills, then you have the responsibility to pass these down to the next 'layer' of future leaders. They will certainly thank you for it!

by: matthew Anderson

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