All organisations need competent and professional managers as leaders to achieve success.Three interrelated and overlapping skills are required. The ability to: manage, lead and to act in a professional manner.
Managing is about quality, time and money.
Dealing with people is about leadership
Managers are facilitators of their team members success. They ensure that their people have everything they need to be productive and successful.
Conversely, a leader can be anyone who has a particular talent, who is creatively thinking out of the box and has a great idea, who has experience in a certain aspect of the business or project that can prove useful to the manager and the team. A leader leads based on strengths, not titles.
Professionalism is defined as one’s conduct at work.
Acting like a professional really means doing what it takes to make others think of you as reliable, respectful, and competent. Depending on your role this can take on many different forms.
