Short presentation presented on last day refreshing leadership course

1. Leadership & Management
Charlie Houston MSc CSci MIBMS
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
REFRESHING LEADERSHIP 2015 GLASGOW
COHORT 22 Jan 2016

2. Outline
• Kotter’s Comparison of Management & Leadership
• What do I regard as Leadership & Management
skills?
– Leadership – soft skills
– Management – hard skills

3. Kotter’s Comparison of
Management & Leadership
Transactional Leadership
(Management)
Creating Planning
Budgeting:
Agendas
Developing HR
Organising &
Staffing
Execution Controlling &
Problem-
solving:
Outcomes Produces a
degree of
predictability
& order
Transformational Leadership
(Leadership)
Establishing Direction:
Aligning People:
Motivating & Inspiring:
Produces change - often to a
dramatic degree

4. Leadership Versus Management
Management is about coping with
complexity, provides stability, order and
consistency
- Is transactional
- Promotes the status quo

5. Leadership Versus Management
Leadership is having vision, a clear sense
of direction and aligning people to it,
helping people cope with change
-Promotes transformation
and drives change

6. Leadership Versus Management
• Management is about doing things right
• Leadership is about doing the right thing
• We need to develop both
But where did the terms transactional
and transformational come from?…..

7. Transactional versus Transformational
• Transactional - negotiation exchange or
bargaining
• Transformational - a vision that things
would be different or better

8. What do I regard as Leadership & People
Management skills?
Leadership – soft skills
• Communications
• Motivation
• Stress Management
• Team Building
• Change Management
Management – hard skills
• Scheduling
• Staffing
• Activity Analysis
• Human resource
management

9. Leadership skills
• Communication
– To my team and to my manager
– Project - Introduction of the Biomedical Scientist App
• Motivation
– Motivating my team on a day to day basis
• Stress Management
– Making sure my team are not too heavily pressurised

10. Leadership skills
• Team Building-
– Daily discussions on important issues of the day
• Change Management
– Introduction of new analysers
– Introduction of new ways of working
• Mentoring & coaching
– Internally
– Externally

11. Management Skills
• Scheduling
– Current - Engineer visits
– Project - Role out of new glucose meters
• Staffing
– Current - Weekly staff meeting
– Project - Installation of new analysers
• Activity analysis
– Allocating staffing and workload appropriately
– Project - MSc Robotics & Automation
• Human Resource management

12. The Difference: per Manfred Kets de Vries
Manager
• Focuses on the present
• Prefers stability
• Orients toward the short
term
• Focuses on procedure
• Asks “what” and “how.
• Uses the rational mind
• Works within the context
of the organization a
Leader
• Looks toward the future
• Appreciates change
• Orients toward the long term
• Engages in a Vision
• Asks “why” and “what”
• Knows how to delegate
• Prefers to simplify
• Trusts intuition
• Takes social and
environmental contexts into
consideration

13. Thank you very much for
listening
lets have a discussion!