It also boosts their confidence and helps them to contribute more to the company via their observations and plans. b) Better rapport with employees Leadership development emphasizes better relationships with your subordinates. Inculcating this into your middle management corps will reap you dividends in your relations with those at employee level. These days, leadership development is usually categorized into two including individual leadership development and group leadership development. The first one usually focuses on the specific leadership traits of an individual while the second one is more on seeing leadership development as a process wherein the surrounding people and the working environment are involved. By thinking one step ahead, they can also plan carefully which will create lesser room for mistakes. - Encourage the leaders to know themselves. This would enable them to take note of their weaknesses and find ways on how to overcome, manage, and deal with them. The same works for their strengths because they might even find a way on how to improve them. In the future, it is likely that leadership development investments will be a priority of organizations committed to this end. However, plans are afoot to maximize ROI for leadership development efforts by way of effective planning, implementation and evaluation. New thinking Some time from now, the thinking would be that leadership and leadership development are going to be inherently collaborative, social and relational processes. It's not exactly optimal but sometimes the best way to learn something is to experience it. These learning experiences are often problems at work. The problem with experiencing crises it is sometimes we don't think of it as a learning experience and just pass it off as being part of the job. They do not care to examine deeper into the problem. His greatest strength is his uncanny ability to rally everyone to meet the organization s goals. Almost everyone wants to be with him, except of course, the perfectionist. In his quest to make things fun, he usually overlooks some details that can be important. Or so, the perfectionist would like to think.