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Leadership Development Middle East

By: Triptta Fernandez

When it comes to Leadership Development in the Middle East the old adage states, “leadership is, as leadership does” and the Middle East is no exception. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of an engaged workforce on a company’s bottom line. Middle East businesses focus on leadership development for all aspects of business planning. In business today most leaders are concerned about the bottom line, but since Leadership begins at the top, a leader is accountable from top to bottom.

Simply put, leadership development is an effort (hopefully, planned in nature) that enhances the learner's capacity to lead people. Very simply put, leading is setting direction and guiding others to follow that direction. A critical skill for leaders is the ability to manage their own learning. The highly motivated, self-directed reader can gain a great deal of learning and other results from using the guidelines and materials in this library topic. The Middle East doesn’t have a plethora of management training literature in the Arabic language, as a result most companies turn to planned leadership development courses from management training companies. There are a number of management training companies offering leadership development training and education in the Middle Eastern region, the GCC led by Dubai and Abu Dhabi leads the way with the number of education establishments that focus on leadership development.

People are not all born with the same potential to lead well anymore than people do not all have the same ability to play football like Pele or sing like a superstar. Different personal characteristics can help or hinder a person's leadership effectiveness and require formalized programs for developing leadership competencies. Yet, everyone can develop their leadership effectiveness in the Middle East. Achieving such development takes focus, practice and persistence more akin to learning a musical instrument than reading a book.

What is Leadership? There are almost as many definitions as there are commentators. In the world of business, Managerial Leadership is the practice of consciously and continually shaping organizations. Leaders are people, who are able to express themselves fully, says Warren Bennis.

Classroom style training and associated reading is effective in helping leaders to know more about what is involved in leading well. Yet knowing what to do and doing what you know are two very different outcomes, as highlighted by management experts. As a deduction, Effective Leadership in the corporate world includes recognizing and driving performance, confidence levels and Motivation to do. Leadership is also recognizing the fact that ‘emotions’ drive our behaviors.

Dr. Paul Hersey’s Situational Leadership®, has been used to train well over 11,000,000 managers and sales people from more than a thousand organizations around the world. An internationally-known behavioral scientist and highly-successful entrepreneur, Dr. Hersey’s pivotal research of influence and behavior led to the development of the Situational Leadership® Model. Over the last four decades this model has become the basis of the most prevalent leadership system in the world.

Top organizations in the Middle East continue to use Situational Leadership® training programs to enhance performance and develop positive work environments. Leadership Development for managers, supervisors, coaches, team leaders and individual contributors are available in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and by design throughout the Middle East Region from a number of training services companies.

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Triptta Fernandez is author of this article on Sales Training Dubai. Find more information about Dubai Sales Training here.

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