Leadership Project

Project Week 1
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Project week 1
Leadership is essentially the process by which a person tries to deliberately influence a group or another person so as to attain a given goal (Wong, Cummings & Ducharme, 2013). At my organization, leadership activities entail setting the goals and new direction, challenging the status quo, leading people, facilitating decision making and the leader has followers. Other leadership activities are listening, building relationships, counselling, team work, persuasion, inspiration, mentoring, teaching, coaching, motivation and having a vision. Management activities focus on tasks and work. These activities also entail maintaining the status quo as the manager specializes on adherence to the standards, and manages teams and people around these boundaries which have been established, directing and organizing to accomplish the task. The leader has subordinates. Furthermore, management activities at my organization entail planning, budgeting, organizing, problem solving, decision-making, controlling and coordinating.
Management activities contribute to the success of change initiatives in that the manager makes decisions regarding the change, organizes resources...