How do career experiences affect the characteristics and competencies of leaders?

Experiences acquired over a leader's career influence their knowledge and skills to solve complex problems.Leaders can gain this knowledge and skill via challenging job assignments,mentoring,training,and hands-on experience.Researchers even suggest that on-the-job experience can impact individual attributes like motivation and cognitive ability.Considering Katz's three skill model,leaders gain more and more experience with conceptual skills over the course of a career,and these are the skills assumed to be more important as a leader rises in levels of management,as problems become increasingly complex as leaders climb the organizational hierarchy.Ultimately,the skills approach to leadership supports the notion that leaders are shaped by their experiences.