Can Leadership be Taught?

Can Leadership Be Taught?
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Leadership is a complex concept that depends on different factors. Understanding whether leadership can be taught is vital because it assists individuals in acknowledging the diverse approaches to train leaders. Possessing good leadership skills is important because it assists people to succeed in any undertaking. Many people have argued whether leadership is taught or developed from an individual based on their genetic heritage. The paper explores the concept of leadership as an inherent ability.
Keywords: leadership, instruction, leaders, organizations.
Can Leadership Be Taught?
Whether leadership can be taught relates to the broader question of whether leadership qualities are innate or nurtured. Possessing good leadership qualities is an essential component of succeeding in today’s business environment. Therefore, the question of whether leadership is a trait that someone is born with or something they can acquire through instruction has been posed numerous times by various industry leaders.
Several scientific studies indicate that a significant number of good leaders are born with certain inherent traits that play a role in their leadership potential. Some people are naturally ambitious, curious, decisive, upright, intelligent, and sociable, qualities that give them a better chance than others to grow within their organizations and become front-runners. These personality traits and intelligence are the consequence of genetics, which means that people born with these qualities have a stronger predisposition to apply them in whichever position they are placed in. Arvey et al. (2006) determined that about 30 percent of leadership is heritable, with environmental factors accounting for the remaining 70 percent variance in leadership qualities. Using a sample of male twins to investigate the influence of genetic factors on leadership ability, the experiment illustrated the significant influence of genetics on leadership personality and cognitive traits.
Natural-born leaders demonstrate a few innate traits: loyalty, self-governance, confidence, mediation, charisma, ambitiousness, humility, humility, vision, creativity, empathy, and risk-taking. Some people are innately capable of putting the needs of others before their own, using their imagination to come up with solutions, applying their charm to influence people to get things done, seeing things before others see them, recognizing and owning their failures, modeling the feelings and attitudes of others, and charting new territories. Others are more cognizant of the importance of maintaining relationships. They know when something is achievable or unattainable, are confident of their abilities and know-how to transfer this confidence to their followers, have an innate drive to succeed despite the obstacles, as well as the capacity to mediate conflicts between diverse individuals and preserve group unity. All these are qualities essential to organizational leadership, and for some people, several of these capacities come more naturally to them than to mo...