Leadership Is Not a One-Night Stand

It is a continuous building of self-awareness and social skills.

Ivona Hirschi
4 min readAug 2, 2022
Photo by PNW Production

How many leadership courses have you taken? None, one, a few? What changed after you took the course or read the book?

Many people are excited about leadership. Yet, they have high expectations. One course won’t make a successful leader out of you. You can spend two days training and feel as if you’ve made it. Not yet!

What you did was you took a step. The first step toward building soft skills and self-awareness. Leadership is much more than professional skills. It is a long-term journey to manage yourself and your environment.

Quick learning fallacy

How fast do you think you can learn leadership? One month, one year, two years? You may have a feeling that it won’t be that fast.

I do management training, but training is just one step in the game. The real work starts after the training. You need to stay motivated and continue progressing and experimenting with your soft skills.

The more you communicate with others, the better skills you develop.

Training is a staged environment focused on bringing awareness, driving collaboration, and…

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