Leadership and Management

Management and leadership are

overlapping domains of activity, and each concept

adds meaning to the other.

Buckingham, 2005; Huy, 2001; Gosling & Mintzberg, 2003

Leadership and Management

Discuss the following:

1.What is the purpose of leadership within your role?

2.What is the purpose of management within your role?

3.What are the characteristic activities of each?

Management is about coping with complexity.

Leadership, by contrast, is about coping with change

John P Kotter

Management

• Planning & budgeting

• Organising and staffing

• Controlling & problem

solving

Helps an organisation run efficiently

Leadership

• Creating vision & strategy

• Communicating these

& getting buy-in

• Motivating action

Helps an organisation grow, evolve and adapt to changing

circumstances

++Innovative, adaptive and

energetic. But if an organisation is large, it can be on the edge of

debilitating chaos

Meets today’s commitments to clients and the community

superbly, while also adapting to change in a way that will

make the organisation stronger in the future

Lead

ership

+

An organisation that is no longer relevant

- soon to go out of business

Usually solid and a performer but also very bureaucratic and

controlling and unable to adapt well to a changing

environment

0 + ++

Management

++L

eadersh

ip

+

0 + ++

Management

X X

X X

X

++ TL

eadersh

ip

+

0 + ++

Management

X

X X

X

X X

XXX

X

Developing strategies

1. Move to the ADKAR phase you want to explore in more detail

2. In your group develop practical strategies /actions you can implement that will address or enhance this phase with your team members

Action Plan

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