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.

1. Leaders enable a group of people to go together where the group’s members want to go individually;
2. Leaders motivate a group of people to go where they would not go alone or unaided;
3. 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.

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