Leadership Training

Leadership Training

The U.S. military has studied leadership in depth. One of their definitions is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish a mission (U.S. Army, 1983). Leaders carry out this process by applying their leadership knowledge and skills (available at http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadcon.html).

Leadership Training

At Milites Dei young people are taught in military style training the theories of leadership and then guided to allow them to lead follow students so that one day when they leave to start a career they will be able to influence co-workers to accomplish goals and missions.

In brief the theories would refer to situational leadership which is according to Leigh Anthony ‘Situational leadership is a leadership style that has been developed and studied by Kenneth Blanchard and Paul Hersey. Situational leadership refers to when the leader or manager of an organization must adjust his style to fit the development level of the followers he is trying to influence. With situational leadership, it is up to the leader to change his style, not the follower to adapt to the leader’s style. In situational leadership, the style may change continually to meet the needs of others in the organization based on the situation’ (available at http://smallbusiness.chron.com/define-situational-leadership-2976.html).