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Leadership is about getting people to understand and believe in your vision and to work with you to achieve your goals while managing is more about administering and making sure the day-to-day things are happening as they should.

Factors that can influence an individual’s choice of leadership in any given situation are many and varied. An individual is likely to have a primary leadership style which they are most comfortable with using. Often the primary leadership style is that which most suits their innate personality traits. For example,

A1. Leadership Style Upon conducting research, it is clear that the definition of “leadership” is not agreed upon. It is fluid, based upon many perceptions, situations, and surroundings. According to Robinson (2010), adopting a specific style of leadership is rather futile as it is, “contingent on the personal traits of the leader, the people being led, and the nature of the activity.” Tools are available to help guide potential leaders in determining a preferred style of leadership. For example, utilizing the “Leadership Self-Assessment

Personal influences and team experiences also affect choice of leadership styles as team dynamics are always changing and a good manager will always utilise their team members so that each person is working to the best of their ability.

I'm currently the lead unit deployment manager at Mountain Home AFB, and our team primary goal is to ensure that anyone deploying from our base have nothing to worry about besides leaving the completing their mission around the country or overseas. Our team usually consists of five members with five different personalities, five different temperaments and five different motivators. The most difficult part I face as a team lead is ensuring everyone complete their tasks in a timely manner and that each member understands their role on the team. After performing the Belbin Team Roles I got a better understanding of some of the strengths and weakness of team dynamics. Of the Belbin team roles survey I scored the highest in the Shaper, team worker

There is a difference between leadership and management, although they are similar in some ways. While, they both want to achieve common goals, influence people, and work with people, they are different. Managers aim to create consistency and

Leadership vs. Management, are they the same? No!. “A leader focus on setting goals and direction, challenging the norm, and seeking new ways of working towards the goals. On the other side, Managers specialize on conformance to the standards. They manage teams and individuals, organizing, directing and controlling to achieve goals” (EBA, 2016).

There are many differing theories on the styles of management and leadership which attempt to differentiate the skills, strengths and personalities required between management and leadership although it is clear from the studies of these theorists that many of the skills are applicable to both.

a) Though the two terms seem similar on the surface, in reality they are quite different. A great manager does not necessarily make a great leader, and a great leader does not necessarily make a great manager. Management controls or directs people/resources in a group according to principles or values that have already been established. Leadership is setting a new direction or vision for a group that they follow, i.e.: a leader is the spearhead for that new direction. The manager uses a formal, rational method whilst the leader uses passion and stirs emotions.

The differences between the two are; management you are to provide order and consistency to organizations, and leadership is to produce change and movement. A good example the difference between the two is shown on figure 1.2, where is strictly labels the difference between the management functions and leadership roles. Like mentioned above, management is to plan, organize, staffing and control, and leadership is to establish, align and motivate individuals. Again, they both overlap with having to work with people and working toward a

Management and leadership are viewed as two different perspectives in the business environment. As described by Dr. Warren Bennis ‘Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing’, this means that managers do things by the set rules and follow company policy, while leaders follow their own intuition, which may in turn be of more benefit to the company.

Not all managers are leaders and not all leaders are managers. The biggest difference between management and leadership is people skills. In determining if a person is a leader or a manager, Bova (2008) lists some differences with which many a person would agree. One difference is that a manager directs people. Managers essentially tell employees to get the job done. Many people work on autopilot until their work shift ends. However, people will follow a leader. Leaders inspire others to want to strive for their best and to go beyond their normal duties.

Managers and leaders are very similar as they both lead staff teams by motivation but they do this in different ways. Managers have more authority with the team and plan, organise and co-ordinate their team to most productivity. A leader has “the ability of a superior to influence the behaviour of subordinates and persuade them to follow a particular course of action.” (Barnard 1938). Leaders lead by example, working well within a team providing

Leadership and management are two separate technique of running an organisation, it has several similarities yet there are many differences. Bateman and Snell stated that “Management is the process of working with people and resources, to accomplish organizational goal” (Bateman and Snell, 2009, P.19). A manager has the power over his/her staff and they will often focus on systems and structure. Management can be described as transactional style because they are more work focussed and want the employees to achieve the task that he/she has set them, the employees will believe if they do so, they might be rewarded. The manager controls his/her department because they are appointed by the organisation to get the job, that’s what they are getting paid for, to get things done with great constraints of time and money. Furthermore the leaders are on a different boat, manager will focus on the system and structure, whereas the leader will focus on

The main differences found between leadership and management is that leadership involves the formulation of a new direction and the vision for the organisational members, management involves the direction and controlling of organisational resources based on an already established organisational policy and shared values. The leaders have the responsibility of establishing organisational mission, whilst leaders have the responsibility of implementing the established missions (Tittemore, 2003).