Definitions Needed

Leadership, Management, Coaching and Mentoring
These words are often interchanged and often over defined. I have simple views of what each of these mean.

Leadership – Leading, deciding the path to take, setting the strategy for others to follow and to work out how to achieve the goals of the strategy. At times, everyone demonstrates leadership.

Management – Managing a process, a business or people. Understanding what the goals are and enabling resources (people and process) to achieve those goals.

Coaching – helping an individual or a team access their own resources that will help them move in a direction that they decide. Coaches are not necessarily experts in a business field such as marketing or sales but they are experts in helping others use their individual resources and talents.

Mentoring – A mentor is an expert in a field or discipline that can give specific advice, direction and input. Their area of expertise could be broad or focused.

2 Responses

russlater says:

November 9, 2008 at 7:41 am

LEADERSHIP
Hi Dean
Leadership- “The relationship between those who choose to lead and those who choose to follow”- this apparently came from the Industrial Society and is IMHO the best and most comprehensive definition of a notoriously slippery subject.

I hope this helps
Rus
http://www.coach-and-courses.com
User deleted says:

November 12, 2008 at 1:06 pm

Leadership, Management, Coaching and Mentoring
These words are often interchanged and often over defined. I have simple views of what each of these mean.

Leadership – Leading, deciding the path to take, setting the strategy for others to follow and to work out how to achieve the goals of the strategy. At times, everyone demonstrates leadership.

Management – Managing a process, a business or people. Understanding what the goals are and enabling resources (people and process) to achieve those goals.

Coaching – helping an individual or a team access their own resources that will help them move in a direction that they decide. Coaches are not necessarily experts in a business field such as marketing or sales but they are experts in helping others use their individual resources and talents.

Mentoring – A mentor is an expert in a field or discipline that can give specific advice, direction and input. Their area of expertise could be broad or focused.