As Stephen Covey said "Leading is doing the right things, managing is doing things right". While leading is about engaging others in a future vision of possibility, management focuses on creating high standards for the systems and processes to drive appropriate actions and behaviors.
Leaders manage and managers lead. The line between manager and leader is often fuzzy. The closer you stand to the frontline, the more the needle shifts toward manager. But the needle always shifts toward leader when you move up.
Moving from management to leadership requires letting go of activities that earned you a promotion in the first place.
The shift from management to leadership:
Focus should be on aligning people, setting directions, inspiring, seizing opportunities.
The initial shift can be made by doing less of management and more of leadership:
Focus on developing people than managing projects
Focus on managing people and empower them to manage projects.
Both managers and leaders develop people, but successful leaders spend more time developing people.
Leadership challenges become opportunities when you enable talented people.
Focus on helping others solve problems than solving the problems yourself
Leaders create environments where people solve problems, instead of solving them themselves.
Focus on asking the right questions than giving answers
When you focus on improving your employees, you get a team full of experts.. in most cases better than you!! You just need to make sure that they are working on the right problem.
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