Project Leadership

I started a course on Project Leadership at the continuing education center yesterday. It is taught by a guy who was a colonel in the military. He has a light southern accent and a wry humour that keeps everybody awake. It is a three hour class making mondays a tough day to get through. Our assignment is to take a personality test online and find out what our personality type is by next week. Interesting website. It has an online marriage test as well as a small business entrepreneur test. Well back to the class. It is dominated by people from high tech but there are a couple from finance and human resources and one registered nurse. The colonel believes he knows something about leadership having served in the military. He professes that leadership can be taught and learnt and it is not a trait you are born with. My own view is slightly different. Yes, there are certain things that can be learnt, but there are also some innate abilities that one is born with. It is highly unrealistic to expect a shy person to be an outgoing and gregarious leader. Their basic shyness will preclude it. My point being that there are some things that cannot be learnt. I am nevertheless looking forward to the class