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Effective Leadership and Management:
A Training Course and Its Lessons
Yelena Groudzinskaya and Valeria Mariko
The idea for
the course described in this article grew out of a family situation.
In October 2004, the family of one of the authors were researching
opportunities for sending their son to study in the U.S.A. While
analyzing grant requirements it became clear that, along with high
academic results and knowledge of English, all applicants were
supposed to demonstrate leadership qualities and write an essay on
the topic of leadership.
The parents
of the potential applicant asked themselves: What is implied by
leadership qualities? How can a high school graduate prove
that she or he has them? Certainly there may be formal indications,
such as being a class prefect. But what if a teenager has never held
any position in the official school hierarchy? Do we then
conclude that she or he does not possess any leadership qualities?
The parents immediately remembered a related episode: When their son
was in middle school there were constant conflicts and even fights in
his class. A consultant psychologist diagnosed "too many leaders
in one group."
The next
questions were: Are leaders born, or made? And if they are made, how
can the development of leaders be supported in school?
Provoked by these questions, we started studying the literature on leadership and
available leadership-training programs. This resulted in the
development of a new three-day, 20-hour (8+8+4 hours) course module,
Effective Leadership and Management, which is now
included in various special-purpose courses at the Department of
Management and Commerce at Nizhni Novgorod State University.
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