LEADERSHIP VS. MANAGEMENT:

WHAT ROLE DOES YOUR

ORGANIZATION EXPECT FROM YOU?

FOR ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS, YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS ANSWER!

Any great leaders born in this town?

INNOVATION VS STATUS QUO• Leadership

• Lead in positive changes

• Accept/embrace change in organizational/personal life readily

• Define/take intelligent risks

• Be a little crazy at times

• Visit other organizations and take their best practices back

• Future oriented

• Management

• Stay with current processes

• Allow change from above

• Focus on the day-to-day work and completion

• Fight fires; Organizational arrogance; We are Number 1

• Follow current policies and procedures; ensure employees work that way

• Stay the course

What percentage of time does your organization require of you in each?

DEVELOPING PEOPLE VS WORKING PEOPLE• Leadership

• Chief encourager

• Go to the strengths of people

• Challenge WF to exceed their capabilities/capacities

• Quality of Work

• Looks to the development of people to solve organizational problems

• Develops IDPs/PDPs for people

• Management

• No time for praise

• Maintains people; volume of work they accomplish

• Quantity/Volume of work

• Looks for systems/structure/IT to improve the organization/work

• Focuses on work and not people

What percentage of time does your organization require of you in each?

INSPIRING TRUST VS DEGREE OF FEAR• Leadership

• Builds effective relationship

• Defines trust; everyone understands

• Concerned about everyone (and families) having a job 3-5 years

• Looks for opportunities to push employees outside of comfort zone

• Has mentors for questions

• Management

• Embeds a sense of fear into employees; punishment first

• Employees scared of mistakes

• Concerned with day-to-day work and this week of work

• Scared to say the wrong thing to the wrong person

• Office politics rules the day

• Has no mentors

What percentage of time does your organization require of you in each?

QUESTIONS WHAT WE DO VS DOES WHATEVER

• Leadership

• Asks what do you want us to do

• Asks why do you want us to do that

• Looks for simple ways to do work

• Looks to constantly innovate by having ideas; asking others for ideas

• Intelligent risk-taking with data

• Seeks details about a lot of the work

• Has some discretionary time

• Well read; has mentors for questions

• Management

• Asks how do you want it

• Asks when do you want it

• Never asks the why question because they can’t or punished before

• Just wants to get the requirements of the task and complete it

• Has very little discretionary time

• Not well read – no time to read or refuses to do that (no mentors)

What percentage of time does your organization require of you in each?

CRAZY VS TOO SANE (BORING?)• Leadership

• Asks really weird questions

• Most important priorities

• Searches root causes of problems

• Reads, explores data, uses mentors for difficult never seen problems

• Works to connect with the heart of employees

• Makes emotional connections

• Management

• Not allowed to ask questions

• Works as directed by supervisor

• Works on what they think is important

• Works to solve problems and move on

• Lacks reading and mentors

• Works to connect with the head of the employees with logic

• Makes logical connections

What percentage of time does your organization require of you in each?

FINAL RECAP OF WHAT YOUR ORGANIZATION REALLY WANTS FROM YOU

What percentage of time does your organization require of YOU?

• Innovation vs Status Quo

• Developing People vs Working People

• Inspiring Trust vs Degree of Fear

• Questions What We Do vs Does Whatever

• Crazy vs Too Sane (boring?)

WHAT DID WE TAKE AWAY FROM THIS PRESENTATION AND OTHERS COMMENTS

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU CAN DO TO IMPROVE YOUR WORK SITUATION?