The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

 You would think that organisations choose their leaders because they are skilled in communication.  What is the job after all, but communicating with the team to make sure everyone is clear about what they have to do and to encourage them to do it?  Well you would be wrong!  Leaders are usually selected for promotion because they are very good, often the best, at their current job. It is assumed that they will be the best person to lead the team on that basis.  Just as we know that the talented sports person doesn’t necessarily migrate those skills into leadership roles as a successful coach, neither does the talented functional specialist transform into a successful leader.  The gun sales rep doesn’t become a great sales team leader.  The best architect doesn’t make the best choice to lead other draftsmen and women.  The list just goes on and on and we wonder why we keep repeating the same errors?  One aspect of that difficulty is that it is hard to see the immediate results of leadership, unless they reall