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Managing & Leading From Maintaining Order to Encouraging Change Management Leadership What’s the Difference? Tricia Nolfi, 2019 Leadership & Management Leadership Activities Produces change and movement Focuses on: ￮ Establishing direction ￮ Aligning people ￮ Motivating/inspiring people Management Activities Produces order and consistency Focuses on: ￮ Planning and budgeting ￮ Organizing people ￮ Controlling and problem solving 3 Kotter, 1990 Tricia Nolfi, 2019
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Managing & Leading
From Maintaining Order to Encouraging Change
Management Leadership
What’s the Difference?
Tricia Nolfi, 2019
Leadership & ManagementLeadership ActivitiesProduces change and movementFocuses on:￮ Establishing direction￮ Aligning people ￮ Motivating/inspiring
people
Management ActivitiesProduces order and consistencyFocuses on:￮ Planning and
budgeting￮ Organizing people￮ Controlling and
problem solving
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Major activities of management and leadershipare played out differently, however, both are essential
for an organization to prosper and change.
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From Maintaining Order to Inspiring Change
￮ A leader’s style is composed of two major types of behaviors: task and relationship
￮ An effective leadership style that is High-High style (i.e., high task/high relationship) is conducive for leading change
￮ Which do you feel you focus on the most?
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● Heavy emphasis on structure and plans
● Focuses on schedules for getting things done
● Definines structure and goals
● High priority of task completion
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￮ Heavy focus on meeting needs of others
￮ Considers employees strengths and weaknesses
￮ Uses motivation to achieve goals
￮ Pays attention to environmental conditions
TASK ORIENTATION RELATIONSHIP ORIENTATION
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LEADING CHANGEWhy Is It So Important?
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￮ Current era of unprecedented change￮ Accelerating pace of change￮ Fastest penetration of new
technologies￮ Significant shifts in citizen/consumer
preferences, government regulation, competition, and new organizational models
￮ Redesigning organizations to be more nimble and agile is a priority of both public and private sector leaders
Change-oriented leadership
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Push Your PerspectiveReact
Problem Solve
Roadblocks
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Proact
Anticipate Opportunities
Openings
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Key Behaviors● Embrace the speed of change● Encourage the free flow of ideas● Examine new communication tools● Remove obstacles● Implement continuous improvement
strategies
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questions?
Thank You!Dr. Tricia [email protected]
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Bersin, J., McDowell, T., Rahnema, A., Durme, Y.V. (2018). The organization of the future: Arriving now. Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends 2017. Deloitte University Press. Kotter, J. P. (1990). A force for change: how leadership differs from management. New York : London: Free Press ; Collier Macmillan.Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: theory and practice (8th ed). Thousand Oaks: SAGE.Waldman, D. A., & O’Reilly, C. A. (2020). Leadership for organizations. Los Angeles: SAGE.
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