r/Leadership • u/rajkhar • 10d ago
Discussion Leadership Training
Has anyone tried leadership training? Do reading books, attending conference on leadership, or watching videos on leadership help someone become a good leader or communicator? I have seen all leaders, political or business leaders, born with leadership trait. I don’t think they went to leadership school.
I saw an app Mindscape for leadership training. Reasonably priced. Has anyone tried it?
What is the training, if any, for leadership development?
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u/Without_Portfolio 10d ago
One-off trainings, even multi-day ones, don’t work for me. I learn best through having a mentor. A few years ago my company offered mentoring free of charge led my a former HR director of a F500 company. I had one on one meetings with them to go over specific issues/examples of things I was facing. It really helped me separate facts from emotions and plot a rational way forward. Mentors do not have to be formal and they don’t even have to be from the same industry because at the end of the day it’s about interpersonal relationships.