Should You Be A Leader or a Manager?
Many people say you should focus on being a Leader, instead of a boss or a Manager. But when you look at the definitions for each you will begin to realize that you need both Leadership and Management in your skillset in order to get things done.
What a Leader Does
A Leader will focus on people and improvement with things like:
- ✅ Inspiring trust in their people
- ✅ Looking at the Long-term vision
- ✅ The WHY behind what the team is doing
- ✅ Ensuring their team are focusing on the right things to get where they want to go
- ✅ Challenging the status quo in order to improve and innovate
What a Manager Does
Meanwhile, a Manager will focus on the numbers, administration and getting things done, such as:
- ☑️ Using Directive leadership and their Positional Power to get things done quickly
- ☑️ Maintaining the way things are and administrating the day-to-day work
- ☑️ Focusing on near-term goals for the team to achieve
- ☑️ Looking at How and When things will be achieved
- ☑️ Doing things the right way
- ☑️ Operational issues and problem solving
- ☑️ Focusing on the bottom line
By combining both the skills of a leader and a manager, you will keep your team engaged and find success in working towards the right goals for your business and project.
See more Project Management Picture Concepts:
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- How to Measure Business Value for Your Project (NPV, ROI and more!)
- Scrum Roles & Responsibilities
- The Change Control Process in Project Management
- Prototypes in a Waterfall or Agile Project
- Agile Estimating Techniques – Planning Poker and More
- Good versus Bad Project Management
- Benchmarking: How To Do It
- Project Management Office (PMO) Types
- Project Benefit Types – Tangible and Intangible
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