During leadership development training, you can encourage your participants to learn different things so these will open up their world to other opportunities that they never thought that exist. - Encourage them to have positive thinking. Leaders are usually burdened by negative thoughts and feelings. These usually focus on targeting the individual s leadership abilities as well as assessing the attitudes of individuals when it comes to leading other people or an organization. Experts say that leadership may be innate to some people but if not recognized early and not nurtured properly, the effectiveness of his or her ability to lead may decrease over a period of time. There's an emphasis on this during training and hopefully you manage to absorb it into your work ethic. Being open-minded means more than being able to accept changes in your work environment this also means that you should be open to the chance that you ar mistaken. Negative feedback helps you improve and make you more efficient as a leader. It's kind of like being a good soccer player or a good player. Some people have the natural talent to be a leader. Some people need a little push in the right direction. The problem with being suddenly handed the big chair is that, unless you've had previous experience, you might not know which of the two are you. For some, it it s their personal issues and problems while others is because of their inability to understand and accept certain situations. To be able to overcome these issues and emerge as a better leader, you must: - Forgive yourself and let the past go. Experts say that many people have the great potential to become effective leaders only that they cling on so much to the past and couldn t forgive themselves for the mistakes that they have committed. Finally, leadership development isn't all just about navel-gazing. It's also about learning skills that are helpful in your job as leader. Some of these skills are administrative ones like balancing a schedule or writing an assessment report. Some of them are about interpersonal skills; part of being a good leader is being able to relate to your subordinates in a way that does not stifle them.