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Introduction

Opportunities for leadership occur everyday, so that even the most reluctant individuals occasionally find themselves in charge. The better prepared they are to meet these leadership challenges, the more readily they develop new skill and increase their confidence and personal insight.

Leadership skill can be acquired through training and effort even if background, modesty, lack of confidence or inexperience create self-doubt. This process often begins when individual discover that they have qualitries and strengths usually associated with leadership. They then surprise themselves with their own inner resources. When this kind of inner strength is revealed, its existence is not easily forgotten. Regular exercise of new-found strength produces further achievement and a sense of self-fulfilment so that growth leads to growth.

The key factor of leadership is divided into smaller approaches. Leadership and management are two distinctive and complementary systems of action. Each has its own function and characteristic activities. One reason leadership takes precedence is that leaders are the people who decide what needs to be done and the ones who make things happen. Employees believe that organisational successes and failures are linked to leadership.

Effective leaders are flexible when deciding which leadership style