The author considers the process of activation of leadership potential, universal and branch features of formation of youth leaders. The role of external and internal factors in the construction of youth leadership environment is defined. The value aspects of the phenomenon of leadership are distinguished in the life style, subjective way of behavior, based on personal qualities, and in objective usefulness to the society, motivational principle, conditioned by the interrelation of personality

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... nd society. The author combines the social component of the axiological approach with the pedagogical one, with the educational process and believes leadership to be a condition of effective communication between the subject and the object of management.