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Leadership and Managing
This week you reflected upon the difference between a “manager” and a “leader” and discussed this concept with your classmates and professor in the discussion board. In a written essay please answer the following questions:
- What are the differences between leaders and managers? What characteristics are similar and what are different?
- Provide a total of three examples. First, of someone who has great managerial skills. Second, another individual with great leadership skills. Third, another person with poor managerial skills. These can be made up individuals or examples you have seen without any identifying information. Discuss how the staff of each individual would be affected by the skills of the leader/manager.
- Complete the Emotional Intelligence Test Discuss your scores and what they mean. What did you learn about yourself as a leader? (Note that a 10 on the EI test means strong. On the score page, click on the blue "here" under "interpreting your GEIT scores, click here" for more information on each section and what it means.
Assignment Expectations:
Length: 1500 to 2000 words total (at least 500 words per question prompt)
Structure: Include a title page and reference page in APA format. These do not count towards the minimum word count for this assignment. Your essay must include an introduction and a conclusion.
References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of three (3) scholarly sources are required for this assignment.
Rubric: This assignment uses a rubric for scoring. Please review it as part of your assignment preparation and again prior to submission to ensure you have addressed its criteria at the highest level
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Thesis statement: To better understand the difference between leadership and management,
there is a need to analyze the differences and similarities, provide examples, and analyze my
emotional intelligence score.
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Discussion
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Differences and Similarities of Managers and Leaders
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Examples of Leaders and Managers
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Emotional Intelligence Test
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Conclusion
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Introduction
A leader is a person who has the ability to influence people in a certain direction.
Through the process of leadership, a leader can engage people to follow trends or directions for
the purpose of achieving a shared goal. Management, on the other hand, is a process through
which a person plans, organizes, directs, and controls activities in a setting (Kotter, 2001). Many
people often confuse management with leadership. In essence, management and leadership are
different things. To better understand the difference between leadership and management, there
is a need to analyze the differences and similarities, provide examples, and analyze my emotional
intelligence score.
Discussion
Differences and Similarities of Managers and Leaders
Both management and leadership are important aspects of ensuring the successful
accomplishment of tasks. To begin with the differences, leaders are visionary people who have
the skills and abilities to influence people to strive to achieve their vision (Wajdi, 2017). Leaders
motivate people to achieve shared-goals by use of good communication skills. The need to
motivate and inspire is fueled by the need to have people engaged for increased productivity at
the individual level. To add on, leaders have the negotiation skills to look for the resources that
are required to achieve the set goals.
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On the other hand, managers look at planning and organizing the activities required to
accomplish set goals. To this extent, managers ensure that the resources that are made available
by leaders are utilized exceptionally to ensure that maximum results are achieved. The function
of organizing and directing is also translated to the people within the setting. Managers are taskoriented. This means that...