Abstract: This work is dedicated to the search for new mechanisms for the formation and development of leadership qualities of an individual in the area of management. The authors conduct a theoretical analysis of the key leadership qualities from the perspective of various schools, as well as describe approaches towards their formation (leadership is just a manifestation of the inherited talent; leader can be brought up through the corresponding training or creation of certain situations). Sociocultural peculiarities of the phenomenon of leadership in Russia are being discussed. The work introduces the commercial and authorial instruments on the basis of modern information and communication technologies that allow forming and development the leadership qualities. The authors consider the merits and flaws in using the Russian commercial software iSpring Suite, the proprietary information system for creating the virtual social educational environment with the preset characteristics and authorial specialized social network. The created virtual social environments are easily scalable and invariant with regards to the content, which discovers the new opportunities in terms of fast adjustment of the proposed content to the sociocultural features of a particular person, as well as the creation of individual educational trajectories.

Keywords: information and communication technologies, training, management, management sphere, leadership potential, leadership, leader, information systems, social network, informatization

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