Leaders vs. Managers


Earlier in the Fall, our Executive Pastor shared this comparison between Leaders and Managers with the New Life staff.  This is what it says.

Leaders tend to:
  1. Stress relationships, principles, values and commitment
  2. Create and articulate a vision
  3. Move the organization in new directions.  Prefer adaptive change
  4. Are unsatisfied with the status quo
  5. Communicate purpose, urgency and vision
  6. Favor taking risks and making changes
  7. Generate a feeling of meaning in work, it’s value and importance
Managers tend to:
  1. Stress organization, coordination and control
  2. Focus on short term achievement
  3. Concentrate on maximizing results from existing systems.  Prefer operational change.
  4. Communicate directives
  5. Fear uncertainty and act cautiously
  6. Enforce fulfillment of agreements/contracts
So which one are you?  Are you a leader or a manager?  Is one better than the other?  TAKE A MINUTE and process this out and post a comment what your opinion is.  I’d love to get a good chat going about this and which one a Student Ministry Director needs to be.]]>