Leadership Development Training As Method to Increase Seafarer Competitiveness (Report‪)‬

1.INTRODUCTION The focus of this paper is on presenting specific training objectives that are needed to be taken into consideration in order to develop professionally both deck and engineering officers. The paper presents a new approach of professional development through leadership in maritime businesses. The findings will help seafarers' training centres and maritime companies to improve their training strategy. In order to aquire competitiveness, the training strategy should focus on seafarers' leadership skills. The limitation of the research consists in focusing on the importance of training through leadership skills and not in pointing a methodology to change the actual training strategy that is mostly common in maritime companies.