leadership v management training activities

Leadership v management

I ask participants to think of leaders – past or present; non-famous, famous or infamous – and flip the names up. Delegates then debate the relative merits of their leadership (or non leadership) style. Interesting debates can take place e.g. Thatcher versus Blair; Hitler versus Churchill; are their own managers real 'leaders'? (or as one delegate put it: "He's not a leader; he's a bloody dictator!".

We then discuss what we mean by leadership (have a vision; people follow them willingly; are inspirational) and how that translates into what they do as leaders (e.g. let staff know of team and department targets; keep them informed of what happening/what's planned; tell them the whys and the whats; pep talks when energy is flagging).

We then discuss what management is about (achieving results through resources; getting things done) and sometimes use John Adair's Action Centred Leadership (task-team-individual) model to define more of what management is about and how it combines with leadership.

Hope that helps

Bryan

http://www.abctrainingsolutions.biz/

2 Responses

perspec1 says:

June 30, 2014 at 11:01 am

Leadership vs management

I can send you what I have which works well enough. contact me at: nick.hindley@ppdi.com

I am not a training provider.

Cheers, nick
bryanedwards says:

July 1, 2014 at 1:27 pm

Leadership v management

I ask participants to think of leaders – past or present; non-famous, famous or infamous – and flip the names up. Delegates then debate the relative merits of their leadership (or non leadership) style. Interesting debates can take place e.g. Thatcher versus Blair; Hitler versus Churchill; are their own managers real 'leaders'? (or as one delegate put it: "He's not a leader; he's a bloody dictator!".

We then discuss what we mean by leadership (have a vision; people follow them willingly; are inspirational) and how that translates into what they do as leaders (e.g. let staff know of team and department targets; keep them informed of what happening/what's planned; tell them the whys and the whats; pep talks when energy is flagging).

We then discuss what management is about (achieving results through resources; getting things done) and sometimes use John Adair's Action Centred Leadership (task-team-individual) model to define more of what management is about and how it combines with leadership.

Hope that helps

Bryan

http://www.abctrainingsolutions.biz/