In my current role, I am a leader, and love inspiring, motivating, and helping my team reach new heights in their career paths. After having a better understanding of Manager Vs Leader I have a new found appreciation for the everyday responsibilities that a manager has to work but am also excited to share that vision with my other team members.
Leaders are meant to inspire while managers help to implement the goals and initiatives of the company. Both roles are complementary to one another for success.
I think that it can depend on the needs of the organization as to whether you are a leader (strategic planning, visionary) or switching gears and facing the need to be a great manager (organizing, implementing and/or controlling). I think that both are important and a person that is able to effectively do both - can be valuable OR is also good at identifying organizational talent to make it happen.
I feel like I'm a little bit of both, but thinking of my current role, I'm a manager who has a heavy inclination to be a leader.
Challenging to put yourself in one space or the other. I feel like I work to master them both.
I feel that I am both Leader and Manager.
Difference between leader and manager are a blurred line, but not if you look closely and think about it. A leader originate, create, solve, a manager on the other hand follow, imitate, organize and does not inspire.
From management and leadership, I've learned several invaluable lessons and how they both complement each other. I aim to create a positive and productive work environment where my team can thrive, achieve their goals, and contribute to the success of the organization.
Due to the nature of my work, I play a dual role, sometimes of a leader and sometimes of a manager. The set of skills for both are important and compliment each other
Due to the nature of my work, I have the need to implement both, leadership and management. I am aware that there is always room for improvement. One of the areas I need to work on is the delegation of tasks. Sometimes, I end up doing things that I shouldn't because I don't delegate enough.
In this module I learned that I need to pull back as I have learned that the set of skills I am using are more managerial than leadership. Although I tend to execute as a leader that are apparently more managerial.
I can be an effective manager but not for long because I then start thinking about the next step, the change, the next vision. I admire managers/maintainers.
The key is to be both and know which project/assignment will require a little more than the other. This is done through work study of your time in both positions.
Managers maintain the status quo and leaders challenge it
Know the differences between the leader and manager but also know that they complement each other.
Reflecting from a 'leadership' perspective; I find myself extremely comfortable with clarifying direction, aligning efforts, inspiring, and maintaining focus and vision, etc. These are the characteristics that seem to come 'naturally'. In contrast, the plan-planning, budgeting and the designing of a plan-direction requires more work, time and focused attention(s) for me.
I also see the Leader characteristics being a more natural fit to my character personally and the Manager characteristics are characteristics that require 'polishing', training and update(s).
I am a leader because I need to transmit the vision of my institution and with my team I delegate and implement a effecting working focused in the vision and mision. But in sometimes I am a manager, I need that company overall understand pasion of every task and with persuasion and been collaborative I influence them to perform in the best way.
I am more in a manager role because of my knowledge to collaborate with other and encourage collaboration with others, and because of my goal oriented mindset.
Hello Everyone
Managers and leaders complement each other in any organization, both are essential part of the organization and both are necessaries for the organization success.
Managers promote stability and cope with complexity while leaders press for and cope with change.
