Leadership vs Management: Clarify Your Role, Maximise Your Impact

A powerful one-hour session to help you understand your strengths, lead with confidence, and manage with purpose.

Leadership and management has never been more important. This highly engaging one-hour session explores the key distinctions, overlaps, and why both are essential to successful organisations. Whether you're managing day-to-day delivery or leading long-term strategy, this session will help you understand your own strengths and the roles others play. You'll leave with a clearer sense of your leadership style, your development path, and how to work more effectively with those around you.

Learning Objectives

• Distinguish clearly between leadership and management roles
• Recognise that both leadership and management are essential and valuable
• Understand different leadership styles and their relevance to school and organisational settings
• Challenge the myth of the "born leader" and identify learnable leadership skills
• Reflect on personal strengths and areas for growth in leadership or management
• Begin to develop a clearer leadership identity and support others in theirs

Course Outline

• Welcome and introduction icebreaker
• Core differences between leadership and management
• Exploring different styles of leadership
• The myth of the "born leader" and what really matters
• Key leadership skills that go beyond management
• Personal reflection: building your own leadership profile
• Q&A and practical takeaways

Course Programme

• 10:00 – 10:05 – Welcome and icebreaker
• 10:05 – 10:15 – Leadership vs management: key differences
• 10:15 – 10:25 – Different styles of leadership
• 10:25 – 10:30 – Debunking the myth of the 'born leader'
• 10:30 – 10:40 – What sets leaders apart: essential skills
• 10:40 – 10:50 – Reflection: your leadership profile
• 10:50 – 11:00 – Q&A and wrap-up

Meet Your Trainer!

An experienced public sector and education leader, Gareth has over 20 years’ senior leadership experience as CEO, COO, and CFO across UK and international settings. A qualified accountant and NPQEL graduate, specialising in finance, operations, risk, and strategic planning. With extensive knowledge across all education phases—including early years, primary, secondary, post-16, and SEN—Gareth has led large-scale transformation and governance projects. Passionate about empowering school business leaders to grow their knowledge, confidence, and impact.

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