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You’ll find the key for establishing leadership skills in your self within this article. Enjoy the material. We have found that most people equate managing and leading. They often interchange the terms managing and leading. Of course, in order to be an effective manager you have to be a leader. However, the opposite is not a case. One of the essential skills of management is leading, but leading and managing are not the same.

Think being a leader and being a manager are exactly the same?

Interesting question, but it’s not asked very often because people believe they already know managing and leading are the same concept. “They are the same thing,” most people believe. Particularly in a business environment, people think of their managers as the leaders. If you happen to be a member of an accounting department, for example, your manager is also your leader. And, it’s true. Leaders are often the ones promoted into managers. Also true that high-performing individuals are the ones getting promotions into management jobs. Great performing workers are not always your best management candidate, but that’s another story.

Is it crucial you have leadership skills to be a manager?

It’s certainly true if the manager happens to be a poor leader it’s a quick path to failure. You can’t be an effective manager if you don’t have great leadership skills. Imagine a situation where there is some sort of problem or crises on the job. The normal reaction during a problem is to look towards the boss. It’s expected she will provide leadership in that situation. If the manager has poorly developed leading skills, you’ll find the probability of success of solving a problem go way down. In most cases the workers want to focus on their job and leave problem-solving to their managers. They want and expect their manager to be leaders in those situations.

In general, people gravitate towards leaders. The majority of people like the security and the knowledge of knowing that someone else is in charge. They like knowing that they have a leader that is looking after them. As a result, they will always look to authority.

Is it possible that you could be a leader and not be a manager?

Of all the questions we’ve asked in this article, this is perhaps the best one of the bunch. In a word, yes. Your goal should be to have more people willing and able to lead than just your managers. Whenever a manager falls short one of the other leaders can pick up the ball. If in above example, one of the other people on the team, provided they possessed the ability to lead, could have easily picked up the ball and solve the issue.

Certainly the leading skill is a vital component of management. We have learned that leading and management are different. You must have excellent leading capabilities in order to be a highly successful manager. You want to have as many leaders as you can even if they’re not your managers.

Generally, you always want to have a majority of your employees able to step up as leaders from time to time. As it turns out good leaders know when it’s the right time to step up.

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You surely know that delegating work to others is a excellent and suitable way to save masses of time, prioritise your own agenda and to concentrate on what are the “vitals” of what you should be doing. Nonetheless knowing when and the way to delegate well is the secret to being successful at it.

First, what does it mean to delegate? It is when you temporarily allow another to assume an area of your own responsibility. Note, it is a temporary assignment not a permanent one.

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Not all of us had the chance to travel to Omaha for the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders’ meeting. It’s a great time to sit and listen to the master, Warren Buffett, give his updated philosophy.

My dear friends, Sandi and Kieth Cunningham did however. They shared some great notes with me and I will pass them along now with some of my thoughts intertwined.

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I wrote the other day about intestinal fortitude. It’s the sort of thing one needs when executing a decision about something unpopular, untried, life changing for someone, or simply politically incorrect. Incidentally, making the decision is not much trouble, it’s the action taken after the decision that’s troubling. Most of us do not put our lives in danger when we do.

I became aware of the incredibly brave action taken by Mosab Hassan Yousef. He’s a Palestinian who also happens to be the son of the founder of Hamas. He was being groomed to succeed his father and was within the inner circle of information about the workings of the terrorist group. He tells of a chance meeting he had with a British tourist who introduced him to Christianity.

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A dear friend of mine sent a poem to me the other day—I’ll get to it in a moment.

It reminded me that now is the time to pay attention to what’s up. The situation you, me and everyone is in is pretty confusing. We’d all best analyze if and determine how we specifically are being affected.

Once we have some notion of the current situation we can convert that information to an analysis. And, when we have the analysis, we can determine the action we are going to take. It could require great fortitude!

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