Congratulations! You are an accomplished manager, spending the bulk of your time ensuring goals, budgets and milestones are met. Your focus on process and progress helps your team and organization advance. As you take on more responsibility for managing others, look for opportunities to lean into leadership – guiding strategy, aligning people, motivating others – to broaden your impact. If you already have a firmwide role, explore ways to delegate management and free up time to deepen your leadership skills.

Leadership is about creating value. Management is about counting value. 

Leadership is about coping with change. Management is about coping with complexity. 

Both are essential skills when shepherding a team or organization through growth, uncertainty or both.

Self-reflection

• Do you lean towards management activities or leadership activities?

• What does that say about your personal comfort level with leadership? With management?

• Are there leadership activities you would like to do more of – what is holding you back?