Professor Tom Frame addressed ILAC in Canberra. Here is a condensed version of his presentation.
What actually is leadership? Can I suggest leadership has three critical elements that seem to be common to all situations.
- Leaders enable a group of people to go together where the group’s members want to go individually;
- Leaders motivate a group of people to go where they would not go alone or unaided;
- Leaders inspire a group of people to want to go to places they didn’t even know existed.
Leadership requires certain in-built character traits and specific personality types but, in my view, it is possible to train, nurture and equip leaders. They are not all born; they are also made.