They need to look more closely at leadership, how it is viewed and how it is developed.

That was one of the themes at a conference organised by the Western Mail and the University of Glamorgan.

Academics said that because someone had reached the top in their organisation, they considered themselves to be a good leader but that this was not necessarily the case.

However, the conference was told there was not a one size fits all approach to leadership but that different organisations needed different approaches, depending upon the stage of their development they were at.