It can be in the form of training, seminars, institutes, or more comprehensive frameworks that lead to the awarding of a certificate, degree, or diploma.
The leadership curriculum is intended[citation needed] to shape leadership behavior, and the approach used in developing the curriculum can vary, depending on the beliefs of the founders.
While theorists and practitioners in the United States in the 19th and early-20th centuries developed the field that they called "management", socialists in Europe founded schools for their prospective leadership cadres.
Lenin established the Longjumeau Party School near Paris in 1911 to train Bolshevik leaders.
[2] In the Third Reich (1933-1945) in Germany, the Nazi Party fostered élite schools, among which the National Political Institutes of Education or Napola, the Adolf Hitler Schools and the Reichsschule Feldafing in particular trained prospective National Socialist leaders.