| All leaders are managers but not all managers are leaders.
The business world requires everyone holding a management job from supervisor through CEO to handle the “what’s” of business – planning, organizing, directing and controlling.
A business person must be able to manage – meaning to plan, organize, direct and control – things.
By things, we mean finances, inventory, work schedules, logistics, sales, record-keeping and reporting, compliance, etc. All those nitty-gritty things that make business happen.
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| All leaders are managers but not all managers are leaders.
It’s the rare individual – either inside business or not, with or without a job title – who transcends managing to become a leader.
A leader – someone whose personal qualities, the “how’s” of their existence, allow them to guide, motivate and inspire people. Someone who touches people emotionally, even spiritually. Someone who creates trust, earns respect, oozes sincere compassion, demands two-way communications, enforces accountability and who builds a feeling of collaboration and partnership within the organization or those around them.
Someone who knows that people aren’t things to be managed.
If that someone holds a management job, he or she touches hearts and balances that with head practices (management) to get the work accomplished.
Are you that kind of head and heart-oriented person? Do you want to be?
First, a couple definitions.
- Head practices are the fundamentals that exist in every work place – items or activities like process and procedure, finance, policies, rules, making money, tasks and systems to get the work done, supervision, meetings, record keeping and reporting, business development, research, operational efficiency, and compliance. We all know this list is long.
- Heart practices encompass workplace essentials like respect, compassion, recognition, two-way communications, real listening, belonging and involvement, collaboration and partnership, trust, having fun, growing talent and engagement. Heart practices create real alignment within the business between the stated mission and employees’ actual on-the-job behaviors because they feel connected to the values of the organization.
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| All leaders are managers but not all managers are leaders.
At The Braithewaite Group, we use the C-factor to help you on your head and heart connection journey.
The C-factors – critical elements for being a bona fide head and heart manager and leader – have been honed by our time in the executive suite and by working with hundreds of individuals.
Some examples to get you thinking:
 Are you connected to yourself? Do you really understand what makes you tick? Makes you effective? Makes you totally ineffective? Does your inner critic run your life, or are you confident about your abilities?
Do your management skills make you capable of handling conflict, using your time well, providing feedback or any of the other situations you face countless times every day as you do your job?
When was the last time you had the courage to broach a tough subject with your boss?
Do you regularly seek to learn and stretch yourself beyond your comfort zone?
Are you ready to become a head and heart leader?
CONTACT US today for more details regarding how our coaching programs (3, 6 and 12-month) will help you become a head and heart-oriented leader. Don’t you want to take your career to the next level or simply make a positive difference in the lives of others?
Don’t dream or wish to be a better someone one day longer…reach out, sign up now and make your leadership vision a reality!
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