Teaching Leadership LO6973

GSCHERL (GSCHERL@fed.ism.ca)
Thu, 25 Apr 96 08:16:35 EST

Replying to LO6950 --

Joan Pomo says:

> In our experience, the vast majority of bosses can be taught to be
> effective at leading their subordinates to be highly productive,
> highly committed, highly creative self-starters who love to come to
> work and are 300% more productive than if poorly motivated.
>
> If you aren't skeptical about this, I would be surprised.

At what level of bosses can you teach people. If a supervisor in a
company becomes effective, and the rest of the company is still
negative, poorly motivated....how effective can that supervisor be?
How long will it take before that supervisor
a) leaves for a more productive work environment
or b) starts modelling the management behaviours

I'm not skeptical about the ability to teach people to lead, what I am
skeptical is how effective teaching one person in a company will be.
If the person is senior enough, he may be able to influence a lot.

Gary Scherling
Helping people help themselves
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GScherling_GMS_TPN

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