Quotes & Sayings About Leadership Training

ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably. — Tony Dovale

India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed the Liberal Party in Britain, and they were very proud of their knowledge of parliamentary systems, parliamentary manners. They were big debaters. They [had], as it were, a long apprenticeship in training for being in power. Even when Gandhi made it a mass movement, the idea of elective representatives, elected working committees, elected leadership, all that stayed because basically Indians wanted to impress the British that they were going to be as good as the British were at running a parliamentary democracy. And that helped quite a lot. — Meghnad Desai

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs. — Ron D. Burton

If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half. — Mark W. Boyer

(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man "exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home." Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family. — David J. Vaughan

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so. — Mahnaz Afkhami

Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well. — Robin Hoyle

Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances. — Abhishek Ratna

You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you. — Jones Loflin

School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school principals and administrators to allow them to create a strong ecosystem in our schools and support teachers and parents as well. — Shaheen Mistri

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them,
and that's not training them and keeping them — Zig Ziglar

When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change. — Gary Rohrmayer

Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection. — Angela Lynne Craig

A good manager will always have the big picture in mind and guide the employees through a series of small targets in order to achieve overall success. — Abhishek Ratna

A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it. — Mark W. Boyer

People not only notice how you treat them, they also notice how you treat others. — Gary L. Graybill

The knowledge of the worker is often called 'skill', for it requires manual dexterity and training. The knowledge of the manager is 'academic' as it can be taught in colleges and universities. However, the knowledge of the leader is 'creative' which can generally not be taught, and must come from within. — Awdhesh Singh

Bury My Heart is a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders. — Stan Slap

Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as it does towards the latter stages of the fire fight, and the crowd instinct possesses the soldier, then will he, if training has formed those necessary mental reflexes, surrender himself to the will of his leader; this is where leadership supplants discipline without destroying it. — J. F. C. Fuller

The question is not how to get managers' emotional commitment but why manager's don't give it even if they like their company. — Stan Slap

Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders. — Ravinder Tulsiani

Leaders approach conflict with an eye for resolution. When handled effectively, successful confrontations raise team performance. To manage conflict effectively, you must begin by recognizing there are three sides to every story:
Yours / Theirs / The Truth — Angie Morgan

Women feel a need for a certain level of prior training and experience that men do not necessarily demand in order to jump into a new role. There's a need for women to trust themselves more... — Selena Rezvani

True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential. — John Paul Warren

When you see recurring problems, the methods you've used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated. — Mark Miller

A pat on the back can often motivate more than currency notes! — Abhishek Ratna

It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8. Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you. — Bill Hybels

In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving; 20 percent of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching; and 10 percent of learning and development comes from formal training. — Marcia Conner

Authentic leadership is a whole body experience. Our bodies have a lot more to teach us about ourselves than our thoughts. — Henna Inam

Leaders are made through discipline, training, experience, failure, and the desire to continually improve. — Bradford Winters

As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership. — Amit Ray

Leaders move among the various stages each day. But effective leaders move among the right stages at the right times. — Liz Weber

By your choices you reveal your commitments. — Marlene Chism

Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us. — Christopher Babson

Many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire. — Mary Parker Follett

Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided. — Mark W. Boyer

I am not smart, I pay attention.
I am not considerate, I listen.
I am not patient, I make time.
I'm not lucky, I work hard. — Mark W. Boyer

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate
it's either in their DNA or it's not. — Richard Branson

I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership. — S. Truett Cathy

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity. — Michael Burgess

Leadership is leading the way, guiding the way, living the way ... — Jayce O'Neal

I am my own woman ... and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family's needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person's particular need is met, it's the best leadership training you can have. — Kamla Persad-Bissessar

We completed meetings with leaders from over a dozen ministries over a ten-day period. Toward the end of our journey, we asked our Sri Lankan host for his feedback. After about the fourth day, he had become convinced that we were actually there to listen, so his feedback was honest. He said (and I'm paraphrasing):
Paul and Christie, you and your leadership training are welcome here in Sri Lanka. If you host your training in a nice Colombo (Sri Lanka's capital) hotel with a nice venue and a buffet lunch, we can get fifty to one hundred pastors and ministry leaders to come. They will come, and you can get some great pictures for
your newsletter. Then, after the seminar, they will take your manual home with them and put it on the shelf with [U.S. megachurch pastor's] training manual and [another U.S. megachurch pastor's] training manual and [a well-known U.S. leadership trainer's] training manual, and they will go about their own ministry in their own way. — Paul Borthwick

Succeeding in life and business is like falling in love with your wife (for those of you that are married). You can't leave your wife at the mercy of another man and feel safe. — Nkem Paul

The process is about leadership and about taking people to places that they cannot get to on their own, while they are still feeling comfortably in control of a buying decision — Michelle Moore

Seminary is for men who are seriously considering the ministry; it is a place where a man may test his gifts and calling in the service of the Word...Uncertainty about a call to the ministry may indicate with certainty a call to theological training. Even when God does not call a man to pastoral work, he often leads through seminary study to other ministries of teaching and to informed leadership in the work of the church. — Edmund P. Clowney

Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered the phone suggested that I might be a great candidate for the Travel and Training fund, and she sent me an application form. I applied for a grant. With the funds I was awarded, I bought a new pair of skates and a plane ticket to the 1988 National Championships, where I achieved my highest national finish. Four years later, I won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games. — Kristi Yamaguchi

Alignment of vision, mission, values and attitudes need to be matched between you and those you choose to surround yourself with. The cost of training or replacing will be very minimal and less painful if recruitment, selection and positioning are done well. This applies even to general employment processes, whether at leadership or staff levels. — Archibald Marwizi

In essence, leadership is the sense of calling to a higher purpose. — Amit Ray

Parishes that have learned to develop a culture of continual invitation to leadership, training, and growth in responsibility for their members are predisposed to ongoing health and growth when pastor transitions occur — William E. Simon Jr.

What counts that we're not counting? — Frank Sonnenberg

Knowledge is key, without knowledge, leadership, and action plans that fit the actual challenges, all of our businesses and organizations are lost. By providing training, offering moments to come together and exchange best practices all of us can stay on top of our field. — Inge Ignatia De Waard

If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured. — William A. Adams

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight. — Denise Moreland

If the UN and other international multilateral institutions are sending troops and weaponry, now they must begin to fund training and leadership development at the same levels. The new war must start with the quality of beliefs and dreams that are planted into the hearts and minds of school children at a personal level and permeate the driving philosophies of entire societies and communities. — Archibald Marwizi

The only real training for leadership is leadership. — Antony Jay

I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leadership issues, that sort of stuff. And try to, in essence, look at what training they're doing and say, 'This is how you can improve the training from a humanistic point of view.' — Carl Weathers

How to prepare someone for leadership:
I do it.
I do it and you watch.
You do it and I watch.
You do it.
You do it and someone else watches. — John C. Maxwell

You can't effectively move up to the next stage of leadership yourself until your current stage leadership skills are solid and are being developed in your team members so they can take over as you move on. — Liz Weber

At Lead Star, we believe that leadership can help you create a better workplace, a better life, and a better you. — Courtney Lynch

Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ - Cultural Intelligence. — Julia Middleton

Being a good leader does not require you possessing a fancy title, no more than possessing a fancy title makes you a good leader. — Mark W. Boyer

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls. — Gary Rohrmayer

Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs - their real jobs. — Liz Weber

Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too. — Stan Slap

Effective spiritual leadership does not come as a result of theological training or seminary degree, as important as education is. Jesus told His disciples, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you" (John 15:16). The sovereign selection of God gives great confidence to Christian workers. We can truly say, "I am here neither by selection of an individual nor election of a group but by the almighty appointment of God. — J. Oswald Sanders

Page holds Musk up as a model he wishes others would emulate - a figure that should be replicated during a time in which the businessmen and politicians have fixated on short-term, inconsequential goals. "I don't think we're doing a good job as a society deciding what things are really important to do," Page said. "I think like we're just not educating people in this kind of general way. You should have a pretty broad engineering and scientific background. You should have some leadership training and a bit of MBA training or knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money. I don't think most people are doing that, and it's a big problem. Engineers are usually trained in a very fixed area. When you're able to think about all of these disciplines together, you kind of think differently and can dream of much crazier things and how they might work. I think that's really an important thing for the world. That's how we make progress. — Ashlee Vance

It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process. — Archibald Marwizi

People are training for success when they should be training for failure. — John C. Maxwell

You can never grow and lead if you don't know how to train. — Honeya

No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes. — Myles Munroe

Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also a training ground for leadership. When we think of leaders, we remember times of change, innovation, and conflict. Leadership is often about shaping a new way of life. To do that, you must advance change, take risks, and accept responsibility for making change happen. — Charles E. Rice

Your organization needs you to be the lead, not the lid. If you're not growing as a leader, you've become the lid — Saji Ijiyemi

When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me ... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports. — Noam Chomsky

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. — Dee Dee Myers

A manager must always provide the employees opportunities to continuously improve their skills and reassure them that they have a promising future. — Abhishek Ratna

The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training. — Ortega Y Gasset, Jose

Empowerment without a platform is like responsibility without authority. In too many of our churches, we offer discipleship training and leadership training without providing any significant platform for people to do the things they've been trained to do. This is especially true in our larger churches. — Larry Osborne

An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation. — Tony Dovale

Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power. — Thomas Gordon

When people think the issue can be solved, it becomes a moral imperative to be part of the solution. We can do a lot more within our school districts to recruit aggressively, select people according to high standards, invest in their training and development, and foster and reward their leadership. Once we invest more in attracting, developing and retaining teachers, potential recruits will begin to see it as a profession worth considering. — Wendy Kopp

The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel. — Henri Rousseau

Walt Disney was a visionary leader. He had no leadership books or training courses to give him guidance. He operated, as many great leaders do, on instinct and observation. — Jim Korkis

The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity. — Stan Slap

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies. — Andy Hargreaves

You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful. — Amit Ray

Leaders are never measured by their success but rather by the success of those they've been entrusted to lead. Therefore, a leader can never be considered successful until those they lead are successful. — Greg Cagle

You are always a gardener. What grow - and how it grows - is up to you. — Jones Loflin

To achieve this incredible feat of building Nigeria, we must all truly desire to see it happen — Fela Durotoye

Too often pastors address problems from within the flawed assumptions of their culture and training. Unable to see how problems are forming, and how their leadership is often a cause, church leaders employ legalistic or democratic remedies to issues that require Spirit-directed discernment, repentance, and forgiveness. Meanwhile, leaders have to deal with members who, as noted above, insist on rights and want to "vote" instead of submit. — Jim Van Yperen

Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program. — Paul Gibbons