What makes people leaders? Why do we feel the need to follow some persons? Do they have something specific, something that we don’t , or is it just a fortune game?

Daniel Goleman defines six types of leaders: visionary, coaching, affiliative, democratic, pace setting, and commanding. If we think at this, we realize that leadership has something to do with born affinities, but is also a process that can be learned.

The style you cannot learn. The style is in yourself, it is in your genes. What you can learn are the methods. Personal leadership can be achieved with a certain degree of work. If you don’t believe it, just read Steven Covey’s book entitled 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which will give you good insights on how you can achieve personal leadership.

In order to be a leader, you need to have the desire of helping other people. You need to have a strong wish to improve things around you. Like a dog agility training, your leadership skills can be trained and improved with exercise. Or maybe you just need to have the guts to tell the truth when you see it. Many people would follow.