Emotional Intelligence

Becca Durci
Leaders vs Managers
 Leaders
Can anyone be a leader?
 Anyone can become a leader. The
key is to develop and find ones
own style.
 The best leaders are always
learning.
 Leaders are reinforcing their
strengths and improving upon their
weaknesses.
Leader or Manager?
 I prefer a leader over a manager.
 Leaders provide guidance. They
motivate and inspire people to
take action. In this way, leaders
achieve long-term results through
a productive, happy workforce.
 Managers are tactical, hands-on
personalities. Results are almost
always short-term results.
Project Manager Characteristics

 Good Communicator
 Project leadership calls for clear communication about goals, responsibility,
performance, expectations and feedback.
 Ability to Delegate Tasks
 Trust is an essential element in the relationship of a project leader and his or her
team. You demonstrate your trust in others through your actions - how much you
check and control their work, how much you delegate and how much you allow
people to participate. Individuals who are unable to trust other people often fail as
leaders and forever remain little more that micro-managers, or end up doing all of
the work themselves.
 Problem Solving Skills
Leadership in an Agile Environment

 There are many new leadership challenges introduced through the agile
environment. Project managers have to take a different approach to leadership on
agile projects than on traditional command and control style projects.
 Make sure you are facilitating your team through their maturity stages.
Identify blockers to building a self-organizing team and resolve them quickly.
 Monitor your team’s health regularly.
 Make sure you know your team members as people and professionals.
 Understand what their skills and capabilities are as well as their communication
style, their cultural background and their personal experiences.
 Make sure you understand and seek out opportunities to benefit from
collective wisdom without getting stuck on the need for consensus. Sometimes as
the PM, you have to make a call.
 Future Time Perspective Scale

 The Future Time Perspective scale measures a person’s perception of their

future as being time-limited. Items are coded so that higher scores reflect a
more expansive view of the future.

 I scored a 3.4, which is right in the middle at a medium score.

 References

 Ho, Leon. (2019). Leadership vs management: Is one better than the other?
Retrieved from https://www.lifehack.org/674254/leadership-vs-management-
is-one-better-than-the-other
 Mandarino, Patti. (2019). Leadership in an agile environment. (2019).
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