Having your people be content to be working their jobs is not just enough though. Good leaders can inspire their followers to work better and to do more for their company. Of course, they won't do it for free but with an inspirational head at the lead, they won't whine so much and sometimes they'll even be glad to do it. Real skills application means making potential leaders gain crucial skills within a working organization and facing relevant and real-time issues. Along with proper performance support (coaching, mentoring, training, action learning, etc.) candidates are immersed with real issues, not lectures. This is in line with the ultimate goal of leadership development which necessitates action rather than just knowledge. Training people to become good leaders has been part of military training, as seen in the officer candidate programs often found in most modern armies. Creating a good operational hierarchy has always been an effective tool of businesses in the past centuries this is often assured by training the heirs of the business early. Human resources In the midst of economic upswings and downswings, companies have realized that money for investment is abundant than ever before. Even in the middle of the present economic crunch, money had been deposed as the number one scarce resource in business. Human talent, however, is now the scarcer commodity. They don t realize that there are those leaders who rely or depend on other people or experiences just to keep them going while there are those who rely on themselves in bringing out their leadership skills. If you are part of a group that conducts leadership development, then you must know that using the traditional and formal approach no longer works. Leadership development is very important for a company because it helps the employees and its leaders to be updated on how to make the company stronger in terms of strengthening its human resources. It is also important because the activities during leadership development reintroduce the employees various concepts that will help them adjust in the company and how to deal with its leaders.