Leadership versus Management

The Look & Sound of Leadership

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

Education, Executive Presence, Management, Careers, Executive Coaching, Self-improvement, Business

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Are leadership and management really different? And does it matter? This month’s coaching conversation explores what separates leadership from management. And what connects them. And why it matters for you and the people you lead.Are leadership and management really different? And does it matter? This month’s coaching conversation explores what separates leadership from management. And what connects them. And why it matters for you and the people you lead.

If you're interested in related episodes, you can search the archive under "Leadership" and/or "Management Skills." Those are at:https://essentialcomm.com/tag/leadership/

and

https://essentialcomm.com/tag/management-skills/

Five specific episodes you can listen to are

Building Empathy
Dynamic One-on-Ones
How Teams Fight
Taming Meetings
The Voice of Authority

During the episode, three lists are built. Here they are:

Leadership behaviors:

Motivating
Aligning
Recognizing patterns
Creating visions and strategies

Management actions:

Staffing
Budgeting
Controlling
Measuring
Problem solving

Relationship skills:

Strong, positive networks
The ability to persuade
Having influence
Using emotional intelligence

The thought leader about leadership versus management is John Kotter from Harvard Business School. He has many books and articles that explore this topic in depth.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership, an ongoing series of
0:07.2	executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace
0:11.2	the way you want to be perceived. I'm Tom Henschel,
0:15.0	your executive coach and today we're talking about leadership versus management.
0:23.0	Raco had leapfrogged her colleagues.
0:26.0	Now, while still leading her large group of accountants,
0:30.0	she was going to become the CFO of a division as well. Her boss, who was... She was a huge supporter, got her coaching so Raco could step boldly into her new role while
0:42.1	still juggling the old one.
0:45.0	Early in Raco's coaching, she and I met with her boss, Scott,
0:48.0	to hear him articulate his goals for her coaching.
0:52.0	When we were altogether, he said, his goals for her coaching.
0:52.6	When we were all together he said,
0:54.4	she's so good.
0:56.7	She deserves everything she's getting.
0:58.5	So my goals for the coaching?
1:00.6	I just want to be sure all that.
1:02.1	Management and leadership stuff doesn't
1:03.5	bite her in the ass she's going to have to be firing on all cylinders from day one I
1:07.9	asked what he meant by all that
1:13.0	management and leadership stuff. Well, she's going to have to keep leading her current group.
1:16.0	He looked at Raco.
1:18.0	You're the reason they're the superstars that they are.
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