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Managers and Leaders: Are they different?
Over the past 5 years the focus on being a leader has shadowed the importance of management, and this can be damaging to your business or company.
To me, these two go hand-in-hand, and it is the key to the success of achieving the vision.
Let's look at each separately and then combine these elements. This will give you insight, and you can decide if you agree with me or not.
Managers:
Leaders:
Leaders on the other hand set a direction, align people, motivate and inspire. A leader has soul, the passion and the creativity. A leader is flexible, innovative, inspiring, courageous and independent.
I dare say that no one starts off as a leader. We all start at the bottom and work our way up, if I must use a cliche. Why? It all hangs on the experience of an individual.
Experience brings with it the knowledge and skills so you can make plan and budget, organise and staff, solve problems and control. Over time it changes the way you think, rationalise, analyse, deliberate, etc. As you master these skills you become a better manager, and promotion knocks at the door.
Leadership develops. It relies on emotional maturity which we develop as we are challenged as a manager (you can develop these even without being a manager, but as a manager, this is important for you to be seen and be a leader).
Operations need managers to control processes, and leaders to drive vision and inspire. It is possible that some are excellent at being a manager but lack leadership qualities, and vise versa on leaders. What I want to show you is the power behind developing both. Almost like a triple threat in show business, it puts you ahead of the crowd, it is an advantage.
Looking back at the posts on leadership, the qualities and the impact thereof, and then fuse it to a competent manager, you almost end up with a superhero of sorts.
Imagine your superior or mentor, can run operations and lead the team to achieve a set goal or vision. They have gone through it all, the learning process, growing pains of becoming more mature, and applying this altogether. There will be little this leader cannot do or know, and still display empathy, integrity and inspire.
To reinforce my first statement, consider the following example:
A sales target is presented. As a manager leader you will calculate budget, put controls, have charts to analyse performance. Then you will drive this vision motivating the team, giving them a clear path to the vision, delegate each ones responsibility, train and coach on skills needed to achieve the goal, and regularly follow up. At the end, as leader you will reward the performance of the team from the analysis you as a manager have made.
Even as a leader you can delegate the managing of the task to a team member, but your experience, knowledge and skills on how to execute is of paramount importance. It is the power of your conviction. They will look to you for training, coaching and guidance after all.
Let me know what you think.
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Over the past 5 years the focus on being a leader has shadowed the importance of management, and this can be damaging to your business or company.
To me, these two go hand-in-hand, and it is the key to the success of achieving the vision.
Let's look at each separately and then combine these elements. This will give you insight, and you can decide if you agree with me or not.
Managers:
Managers are the people to whom this management task is assigned, and it is generally thought that they achieve the desired goals through the key functions of planning and budgeting, organising and staffing, problem solving and controlling. A manager has the mind, the rational and the persistence, consulting, analytical, deliberate, authoritative and stabilising.
Leaders:
Leaders on the other hand set a direction, align people, motivate and inspire. A leader has soul, the passion and the creativity. A leader is flexible, innovative, inspiring, courageous and independent.
I dare say that no one starts off as a leader. We all start at the bottom and work our way up, if I must use a cliche. Why? It all hangs on the experience of an individual.
Experience brings with it the knowledge and skills so you can make plan and budget, organise and staff, solve problems and control. Over time it changes the way you think, rationalise, analyse, deliberate, etc. As you master these skills you become a better manager, and promotion knocks at the door.
Leadership develops. It relies on emotional maturity which we develop as we are challenged as a manager (you can develop these even without being a manager, but as a manager, this is important for you to be seen and be a leader).
Operations need managers to control processes, and leaders to drive vision and inspire. It is possible that some are excellent at being a manager but lack leadership qualities, and vise versa on leaders. What I want to show you is the power behind developing both. Almost like a triple threat in show business, it puts you ahead of the crowd, it is an advantage.
Looking back at the posts on leadership, the qualities and the impact thereof, and then fuse it to a competent manager, you almost end up with a superhero of sorts.
Imagine your superior or mentor, can run operations and lead the team to achieve a set goal or vision. They have gone through it all, the learning process, growing pains of becoming more mature, and applying this altogether. There will be little this leader cannot do or know, and still display empathy, integrity and inspire.
To reinforce my first statement, consider the following example:
A sales target is presented. As a manager leader you will calculate budget, put controls, have charts to analyse performance. Then you will drive this vision motivating the team, giving them a clear path to the vision, delegate each ones responsibility, train and coach on skills needed to achieve the goal, and regularly follow up. At the end, as leader you will reward the performance of the team from the analysis you as a manager have made.
Even as a leader you can delegate the managing of the task to a team member, but your experience, knowledge and skills on how to execute is of paramount importance. It is the power of your conviction. They will look to you for training, coaching and guidance after all.
Let me know what you think.
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