什么是领导？

Right, welcome to this next step, which we have called ‘What is leadership?’ The point of the exercise we’re about to get you to have a go at, is to connect you to some of the pre-existing attitudes, beliefs, assumptions, ideas that you are holding on to about leadership and who is a leader. The reason we think that’s important to do is that first of all, this is not a course which is trying to teach you a model of leadership that we think you can somehow ingest and then go and execute in the world as though it were software. Fundamentally, leadership is a social and relational action and practice.

Therefore you’re going to develop your leadership, it’s about learning to be yourself more skilfully and therefore it’s about being more in touch and more self-aware about some of the influences that are swirling around in you, that you’ve picked up along the way in life.

这里的机会是真正考虑：您持有的行李是什么？不是要判断它，而是要与之建立联系，以意识到它，以及它如何影响您如何看待领导力以及与权力和权威等事物的关系。因此，这是一个探索性的步骤，只是为了看看您已经随身携带了什么。

一个相关的观点：这也不是认为领导力是为高地位角色或已经处于正式领导职位的个人保留的课程。我们在这里的态度和邀请是将领导力视为一种行动，并在各种人物中以各种角色在整个健康和护理系统中分发了一些行动。

If you’re going to take up your power and take up your leadership practice - if we’re going to call it that - one of the most important things to you can do, regardless of your responsibilities or the amount of authority and status you might have in your role, is just being in touch with who you are and how you came to be who you are. Some of that is to do with our attitudes to leaders and leadership, which you will have absorbed along the way, regardless of your professional experience because we live in a society that demonstrates attitudes and ideas about leadership all the time.

这是否与性别，表现和行为有关，我们在此过程中没有太多讨论来吸收。因此，这步骤只是一项邀请，批评和周到地参与您的想法，但在我们进入本课程中一些更实质性的步骤之前，也许没有太多的机会考虑。因此，请玩得开心，不要急于考虑您对我们在下面提出的一些问题的回答。