Episode 27: "How to Move From Just Managing to Leading"

Co-Hosts Tywauna Wilson, Lona Small, and Stephanie Whitehead discuss various strategies for moving from just managing to leading.

Key Takeaways from the show:

Fundamental differences between managers and leaders

• Leaders create a vision, managers create goals.
• Leaders are change agents, managers maintain the status quo
• Leaders are unique, managers copy
•  Leaders take risks, managers control risk

 The perils of confusing management and leadership

• Confusing job satisfaction and employee engagement
• Evaluate employee retention and absenteeism
• Micromanagement can arise
• Adhere to compliance can be affected

 Actionable Items

• Continue to grow your leader competencies (Growth happens daily, not in a day) 
• Get to know your team so that you can drive on the motivators that they have
• Move from being transactional to being transformation
• Learn from your mistakes along the way
• Assess your current state by doing an assessment to know if you are operating more as a manager or leader
• Make a plan 
• Choose a new competency in leadership and keep building on that

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