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Which do you think is better: a great leader or a good manager?
Which do you think is better: a great leader or a good manager?
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As a future law enforcer, why is it important to learn what a leader is and a manager is?
As a future law enforcer, why is it important to learn what a leader is and a manager is?
Answer will vary
What does analyzing the definitions of leadership mean?
What does analyzing the definitions of leadership mean?
To accomplish a mission with colleagues, a leader must possess skills.
Which leadership style involves members of the group taking a more active role in the decision-making process?
Which leadership style involves members of the group taking a more active role in the decision-making process?
What is Autocratic Leadership also known as?
What is Autocratic Leadership also known as?
What does Laissez-Faire Leadership rely on?
What does Laissez-Faire Leadership rely on?
What is Transactional Leadership also known as?
What is Transactional Leadership also known as?
What does Charismatic Leadership use to influence subordinates?
What does Charismatic Leadership use to influence subordinates?
What does Transformational Leadership encourage?
What does Transformational Leadership encourage?
What does Servant Leadership focus on?
What does Servant Leadership focus on?
Name three characteristics and qualities of a leader.
Name three characteristics and qualities of a leader.
What basic management functions does a manager execute?
What basic management functions does a manager execute?
What is management defined as?
What is management defined as?
Name three of the five most essential types of management.
Name three of the five most essential types of management.
Leadership skills cannot be taught or learned.
Leadership skills cannot be taught or learned.
What is the fundamental function of a leader?
What is the fundamental function of a leader?
Which do you think has the greatest function in terms of work; leadership or management?
Which do you think has the greatest function in terms of work; leadership or management?
What is the first step to the fundamental function of a leader; regarding setting goals?
What is the first step to the fundamental function of a leader; regarding setting goals?
What does 'organizing' mean; regarding the functions of a leader?
What does 'organizing' mean; regarding the functions of a leader?
What is the function of 'initiating action' mean for a leader?
What is the function of 'initiating action' mean for a leader?
What is the fundamental function of 'planning' for a manager?
What is the fundamental function of 'planning' for a manager?
What is 'staffing' in the fundamental function of a manager?
What is 'staffing' in the fundamental function of a manager?
What is the aim of the 'Training and Professional Development' fundamental function of a manager?
What is the aim of the 'Training and Professional Development' fundamental function of a manager?
What is 'communication' within the fundamental functions of management?
What is 'communication' within the fundamental functions of management?
Describe 'Study your organization' within the guidelines of successful management
Describe 'Study your organization' within the guidelines of successful management
Describe 'Set meaningful and attainable goals' within the guidelines of successful management
Describe 'Set meaningful and attainable goals' within the guidelines of successful management
What does the guideline 'Implement modern management techniques' mean?
What does the guideline 'Implement modern management techniques' mean?
Which do you think has the higher role? A leader or a Manager?
Which do you think has the higher role? A leader or a Manager?
What is the role of a Leader in an organization?
What is the role of a Leader in an organization?
What is another task of managers?
What is another task of managers?
Flashcards
Leadership
Leadership
Motivating people to believe in a vision and work together to achieve shared goals.
Management
Management
Overseeing resources and ensuring day-to-day tasks are completed effectively.
Who is a Leader?
Who is a Leader?
Someone who inspires and motivates others toward a better vision.
Democratic Leadership
Democratic Leadership
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Autocratic Leadership
Autocratic Leadership
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Laissez-Faire Leadership
Laissez-Faire Leadership
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Transactional Leadership
Transactional Leadership
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Charismatic Leadership
Charismatic Leadership
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Transformational Leadership
Transformational Leadership
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Servant Leadership
Servant Leadership
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Bureaucratic Leadership
Bureaucratic Leadership
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What is a Manager?
What is a Manager?
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What is Management?
What is Management?
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Participative Management
Participative Management
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Network Management
Network Management
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Mentor management
Mentor management
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Pacesetting management
Pacesetting management
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Authoritative management
Authoritative management
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Fundamental Function of Leader
Fundamental Function of Leader
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Fundamental Function of Manager
Fundamental Function of Manager
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Study Notes
Leadership vs. Management
- Leadership helps people believe and work towards a shared vision and goals.
- Management focuses on ensuring daily tasks are completed correctly.
Leader vs. Manager - Key Differences
- Managers establish structure and delegate authority.
- Leaders provide direction by developing a vision and inspiring personnel.
- Understanding the differences and importance of leaders and managers is critical, especially for future law enforcers.
What is Leadership?
- Leadership involves motivating a group towards a common goal.
- Directing individuals or colleagues with a strategy to achieve a mission
- Planning, safeguarding resources, and improving mistakes are elements of leadership.
- It includes motivating individuals to cooperate to achieve a goal.
Defining a Leader
- A leader is someone who identifies areas for improvement and motivates people towards a better vision, prioritizing their needs.
- Leaders communicate effectively and have a clear vision, motivating others to succeed across various sectors.
- Leaders create inspiring visions, motivate engagement, and manage to deliver results.
Effective Leadership Styles
- Democratic Leadership: Group members participate in decision-making, with employees discussing and resolving issues.
- Autocratic Leadership: Leader has individual control over decisions with limited input from group members.
- Laissez-Faire Leadership: Leaders trust subordinates, allowing them to use their creativity and resources with minimal instruction.
- Transactional Leadership: Also known as "managerial leadership," focuses on supervision, rewards, and punishments to motivate followers.
- Charismatic Leadership: Uses communication skills and charm to influence, connecting with people during crises.
- Transformational Leadership: Encourages innovation to shape the future and success of the organization.
- Servant Leadership: Focuses on the growth and well-being of subordinates and the organization.
- Bureaucratic Leadership: Emphasizes formalized processes, rules, policies, and hierarchies with a clear chain of command.
Qualities of a Leader
- Honesty and integrity
- Confidence
- Ability to inspire others
- Commitment and passion
- Communication skills
- Decision-making capabilities
- Accountability
- Delegation and empowerment skills
- Creativity and innovation
- Empathy
- Resilience
- Emotional intelligence
- Humility
- Transparency
- Vision and purpose
Defining a Manager
- Managers ensure activities are completed efficiently through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
- They set a positive example using their strengths, encourage group success and teamwork, communicate goals, and provide feedback.
Defining Management
- Management directs and administers tasks to achieve goals by setting approaches and coordinating staff efforts using available resources.
- It involves directing, controlling groups, and managing human, financial, technological, and natural resources.
Types of Managers and Management Styles
- Participative Management: Involves subordinates in decision-making, values their ideas, and treats them with respect.
- Network Management: Processes and manages data networks to improve performance and security.
- Mentor Management: Grooming individuals for future executive roles.
- Pacesetting Management: Sets a high-performance pace for the team.
- Authoritative Management: Manager in complete control sets goals, determines processes, and oversees all steps.
Types of Managers
- General Managers: Responsible for overall performance of an organization or a major subunit.
- Functional Managers: Manage resources within specific departments, such as IT or marketing, directing technical work.
- Frontline Managers: Known as first-line managers, they manage critical daily operations and are the largest population of leaders.
Qualities of a Manager
- Caring
- Coaching
- Communicating
- Development
- Emotional resilience
- Fair treatment
- Foster innovation
- Overall manager effectiveness
- Results oriented
- Technical capability
- Vision and Goal setting
Leadership and Management: Learned Skills
- Managers oversee daily operations, while leaders inspire change and greatness.
- Management focuses on doing things right, while leadership focuses on doing the right things.
- Leadership skills can be taught and learned; leaders are developed through motivation and interest in skill development.
- Leadership is a skill developed over time via practice; even great leaders developed skills over time.
- Management can be learned and taught, improving skills via education and training to motivate and increase worker productivity.
Fundamental Functions
- Leaders create vision, set goals, inspires people, and builds new relationships.
- Managers plan, organize, budget, coordinate, control, and execute within existing structures.
- Leaders focus on roles, while managers focus on functions.
Leader's Functions
- Setting goals, considering needs, and committing to them.
- Organizing effective relationships among selected work, persons, and workplaces.
- Initiating action to achieve beyond what is required.
- Coordinating to achieve a common action.
- Providing direction and motivation towards desired targets.
- Linking management and workers through motivation and rewards.
- Improving motivation and morale for enthusiastic, willing workers.
- Motivating power to group efforts, combining energy, knowledge, and skills to maximize outcomes.
Manager's Functions
- Planning a making and performing step-by-step goals and procedures.
- Financing allocates the necessary funds.
- Organizing puts things in the correct order.
- Staffing puts the right person in the right position
- Training and Professional Development enhances skills.
- Communication disseminates information about the plan.
Guidelines for Successful Management
- Understand your role in achieving organizational goals.
- Study the organization to deeply understand its mission and purpose.
- Serve your customers and those assigned to you.
- Setting goals that are attainable.
- Implement modern management techniques efficiently.
Management Rules
- Assign responsibilities to each executive.
- Responsibility should coincide with authority.
- Any change should be discussed with every person or party concerned.
- Do not give orders to anyone over the head of a responsible office or officer.
- Whenever possible, criticism should be made in private.
- All disputes should be considered for adjudication.
- Promotion, wage changes, and disciplinary action need approval from an executive.
- Don't expect an employee to be an admirer and critique at the same time.
- Give executives the facilities needed to maintain an independent check on quality.
Roles in the Organization
- Leaders guide and inspire people to reach goals.
- Managers plan, organize, control, and execute activities within existing structures.
Role of a Leader
- Ensuring all followers understand, embrace, and work to achieve the objectives, with all members participating in the organization's mission.
- Providing encouragement to attain goals.
- Setting new targets, providing resources, and giving clear direction.
- A leader provides a good plan, strategy and direction.
Role of a Manager
- Ensuring subordinates follow daily functions.
- Supervising members.
- Interviewing and hiring new employees with leadership qualities.
- Articulating short and long-term goals aligned with the company's plans.
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