The essential skills identified for Apple, Inc. leaders are technical and industry knowledge, innovation and change management skills, and social skills and interpersonal. To transmit these skills, various approaches and methodologies will be used. Conferences, on-the-job training, online and internet portal, workshops, lectures, seminars, team building exercises, as well as coaching and mentoring will be used to develop the current generation of leaders and future leaders of the organization in order to ensure continuity of leadership and to avoid gaps or leadership vacuum if one of the company's leaders leaves the company (Lussier and Achua