Leadership, as a class, it is difficult to define, but easy to spot.
Someone once defined management as "the effective coordination of efforts of individuals in a group to achieve stated goals that the leaders of the 'organization." Getting the results by setting goals and working with and through people to achieve these objectives.
As a manager, your success depends on your ability to:
• Find and attract career-oriented men and women who have knowledge, skills and attitudes to do the job, who are motivated to work, and work with you and with each other, and;
• Develop and manage these people to meet specific performance standards.
Management is a process, because it involves a range of skills. But management is as much as the attitude and skills. Managers should be useful to advocates, working to build trust and confidence, and trying to improve performance, recognizing that individuals have different needs, aspirations and motivations.
This means that more of a leader you are, the better manager.
Fortunately, most leaders are made, not born. They are produced, shaped and reinforced by education, training and experience the real world. Understanding leadership and management is a good way to become more competent at both.
What is leadership? What it takes to be a leader? Here is a short course:
• Leadership means having a mission and inspiring others to strive for it. The mission is everything: the leaders are approaching it with enthusiasm.
• Leaders are agents of change, make decisions based on a vision of the future, not only for established indications.
• Leaders take risks to make things happen that would not happen.
• Leaders need a combination of competence, integrity, credibility and authority. They are seen as being involved in a lot of things and able to answer lots of questions.
Leadership is not a collaboration, individual process. And 'the ability to get people to do what they want because they want to do it!
• help people do their best leaders.
• The leaders depend on themselves and act on their own authority, but recognize the importance of others.
• Leaders ask questions and listening.
• The leaders let others speak, do not talk about themselves.
Leadership begins when people disagree.
• Leaders recognize that the performance and progress are forged on the anvil of constructive conflict.
• Leaders are willing to be loved! In the words of John S. McCain (the late father of the senator): "People can not love you admiral to be strong when you have to be, but I respect you for it and learn how to behave when you run." Try it, it works!
As an effective leader
• Leaders are proactive, have a clear vision of their objectives and avoid irrelevant digressions.
• Leaders know their stuff, have a thorough knowledge of their subjects, when possible, backed up with practical experience.
• Leaders are ready. No matter how well you know what you're talking about, choose ways to get your message. Avoid shortcuts.
• Leaders are enthusiastic, but their enthusiasm season with intelligence and irony of the case.
• Leaders understand the use of drama. Dull is boring, so as to cultivate a sense of staging, especially when dealing with a group.
• Leaders are trusting and easy-going. Regardless of their management style, speak for themselves, projecting their voice and watching people's eyes. Distinct speech is a sign of distinct ideas; catch on self-confidence.
• Leaders maintain a positive attitude. They never speak ill of their organizations or individuals under their management. The glass is always half full, never half empty.
• Leaders demonstrate the contagion of example. Not enough of conversation leaders must walk the path.
• The leaders support their subordinates, giving them greater authority and discretion as possible, while maintaining centralized responsibility for themselves.
• The leaders live in the U.S. Army motto: Adapt, improvise and overcome.
Leadership makes businesses work
If it retains the ability to manage operating systems effectively, leadership identifies the needs of management and search systems to address them. If management skills are required to administer the programs and systems in place, it takes leadership to create a vision of success, and get people excited to get there.
In short, the leadership provided by agency heads, sales managers and other members of the management team-run enterprises. It enables them to develop to the limit of their potential, thus helping to break those limits.
More? Send comments and questions to Want w.willard3 @ knology.net
Sources:
Manager Online - A "Do-While-Learning Program ™, The diverse group
The official guide of the Navy, the Naval Institute Press
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