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This month we continue our discussion of leadership and management. Too often in our rush to develop "leaders" we overlook some of the basic management skills that are also necessary for success. Great managers do both! See the article below: In addition, we would appreciate your comments, stories, insights and comments on this and other articles on our blog: Magnify L&D Blog
Magnify L&D would like to offer our support in building leadership and management skills. See the program review below to learn more about how we can help your managers/leaders discover their own approach to leadership. If you would like more information and/or if we can help in sales force analysis or with other sales and management development needs, please feel free to contact us at info@magnifyleadership.com
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James Gehrke
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| June's Article |
| The Difference Between Leaders and Managers
by James Gehrke |
Kotter argues that leadership and management are complimentary yet different. He believes that organizations that develop and promote leadership skills will out perform those who emphasize management skills since organizations with leaders will be able to adapt to the changing market place.
My multinational business experience in Europe confirms that organizations who emphasize leadership skills are greatly valued. The Turkish organization, while a less developed organization than others in Europe, was known as a breading ground of global leaders. The country manager gave young managers the opportunity to lead teams, then laterally moved them to other departments in order to broaden their exposure and experience in developing strong leadership skills rather than deep departmental skills.
This example demonstrates the value of leadership skills. Still, leadership is only one role that a manager plays and not a completely separate skill set. I disagree that "people cannot manage and lead." While the leadership role may be growing in importance, the other management roles are also important. Without balance a leader/manager may not fully benefit the organization. For example, long term planning certainly needs the vision of a leader, but management skills must also be used to organize the teams in ways to meet that vision. Furthermore, a leader/manager must have the communication and motivation skills to align and motivate, as well as the organizational and team building skills to ensure the team is organized and developed in ways to meet future challenges.
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| Magnify Leadership and Development Training Solutions: |
| Magnify Persional Leadership |
As pointed out in this month's article, managers often struggle communicating initiatives in a way that clearly motivates their teams around a common vision. Part of the challenge is that managers are often so involved in the day-to-day challenges of managing the business that they never stand back and evaluate what their own personal style and/or approach to leadership is.
This session provides several facilitator lead activities that help individuals explore their personal approach to leadership. Just about any manager, facilitator, teacher, coach, or anyone else in a position of influence can be considered a leader. Perhaps the common denominator in defining who is and who is not a leader is whether the individual has influence over another individual or group. When we consider this, all of us have the potential to influence and lead. However, how effective we are as leaders is another question.
The Bible tells us to judge the goodness of a tree by whether it bears good or bad fruit and that "a good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil." The same evaluation works for leaders. Do they have positive or negative influence on others? By observing great leaders of the past and present, certain basic qualities can be identified of great leaders. This workshop is designed to provide participants opportunities reflect on their own personal approach to leadership in order to improve their positive influence on those they lead.
Participants in this 2 to 3 day workshop will:
1. Discover the traits of leaders in order to identify their key core values they will use as a base for their leadership platform.
2. Determine what mark they want to leave on those the lead and influence.
3. Create and practice delivery of a succinct message that explains their core values and where they want to lead their teams.
4. Investigate and practice key qualities of servant leadership
Click here if you are interested in this or other Magnify L&D training workshops
Magnify Leadership and Development Programs Include:
Full one to three day workshops include:
- Magnify Personal Leadership
- Magnify Coaching Skills: Ten Hallmarks of Coaching Greatness
- Magnify Change Leadership
- Magnify Communications Skills: Becoming and Effective Communicator
- Magnify Interviewing Skills
- Magnify Team Effectiveness: Creating a Team Environment
Half to one First Line Management Development Skills workshops include:
- Leading By Example
- New Employee Development
- Employee Recognition
- Delegation
- Mentoring
- Teamwork
- Time Management
- Interviewing Skills
- Coaching
- Disciplining and Terminating
- Sexual Harassment Avoidance and Diversity Training
- Conflict Resolution
- Disciplining
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| About James Gehrke and Magnify Leadership and Development |
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is a training consulting company with global experience in management/leadership and communication skills and sales force effectiveness training. We provide our clients with customized service and the individual attention in ways that larger training firms cannot provide. We design and deliver customized workshops for clients and back up that training experience with individualized feedback and coaching so that participants can apply the concepts learned more effectively to their jobs; improving performance, productivity and bottom-line results.
Our vision is that our efforts will help to 'magnify' the natural ability that exists in individuals, helping them to maximize their full potential, increasing their value as leaders and professionals in the organizations were they work and serve. We will not be the largest training company, but by offering customized training solutions and by developing a global network of proven subject matter experts, trainers and coaches, our clients all over the world, will value us as the best. We will provide a stellar training experience that has been tailored to our client's needs, providing lasting value to their organizations and improving their bottom line.
Click here to visit our website James has over 25 years of experience working for some for the world's leading Corporations. He headed Pfizer's Learning and Development for all of Europe, Canada, Africa and the Middle East where he was instrumental in the development of a global management curriculum and other training initiatives to enhance organizational effectiveness for over 30,00 employees. He has worked on high level cross functional teams addressing issues such as Field Force Effectiveness, Change Leadership, Leader Behavior Development, Executive Coaching and many others. James also has extensive experience in Sales, Sales Management and Training.
Since founding Magnify Leadership and Development, James has developed, facilitated and coached dozens of leadership and management development training programs for dozens of organizations worldwide. James is bilingual and can facilitate and coach in both English and Spanish. Click here to see customer testimonials |
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