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Do You Manage Or Lead? | Origin: LS101

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Do You Manage Or Lead?

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I think that in leadership you have fill both roles as a leader for guidance and manage to steer the future leaders. 

"This course has been instrumental in helping me realize that effective leadership and management go hand in hand. It has taught me that one cannot be a good leader without being a good manager, and vice versa. The two roles are complementary and intertwined, and success in either role requires skills and qualities that are essential in both."

I am both a leader and manager 

I learned that it takes both managerial and leadership skills to be a good leader. I often thought that being a leader was better than being a manager, but it is actually both that can make you a strong leader. 

Both skills are important.

I believe that I'm naturally more of a manager, but the more confident I get in this role, the more I lead.

I would say I am more of a leader based on the definitions outlined in the video. However, I need to grow in managerials skills in order to become a more effective leader. 

I manage, however, I am learning leadership skills. I'm learning the differences between the two.

Management and Leadership can overlap.  However, a leader does more than administrate.  The leader creates, has foresight, develops and communicates.

From what I can tell I lead and manage. Depending on the situation both are equally important to understand and know when to use. 

I believe I do both.  I have different areas of strength and weakness for each one, but definitely do both!

Good leaders often have good manager skills.  I need to find ways to focus more on rewarding and influencing others.

In this lesson, I learned that management and leadership are both necessary. Whereas management deals with general oversight, which is certainly important in some aspects, leadership focuses on seeing the bigger picture, moving towards a vision, and helping to transform others.

In my position I do both.

Leadership and managing can go hand in hand. To be effective in the classroom it's important to have characteristics of both a leader and manager. I learned the key differences of manager vs. leader.

IMO, I believe there's a major difference between a Boss and Leader. Being a leader you are more respected and leading by example than telling the workers what to do. By doing so you receive more productivity.

The best method for me to lead anyone is by providing them with a good example. If I an unwilling to learn, compromise, or educate myself to make informed decisions, what kind of example am I setting for others? I always have the voice inside of me reiterating that as a leader, I should be striving to provide others with the tools they need to be future leaders. 

According to the assessment, I am a leader, I but feel like I have incorporated both in my previous roles. With me team, I was a manager in supporting and evaluating curre t processes to help ensure good moral and efficiency. However, when I with other mangers or even higher leaders I would take on more leadership responsibilities, not to lead them but liaisoning with them to represent my team and department and advocate for needed changes (which I would then manage once in affect). 

I've also seen first hand what having bad leadership but good management does to the overall institution. Great things can come out of good management, but if it's not matched with similar leadership, progress can be very limited. It was good to see the importance and need of both and how both rely on each other.

After this lesson, I realize there are differences (although subtle) between what managers do and what leaders do within the organization.  

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