And then I was assigned.\u00a0 At the beginning of my role as principal, the shift in my position involved changing desks from the classroom to the office.\u00a0 I had been assigned a new position in the school,\u00a0but for many months or even a year or two there were staff who had strong opinions about the way our school should run, I was not yet the leader. I eventually emerged as a leader once I was able to look up from the day to day management of the school and more formally implement vision, direction and plans for development.\u00a0 Today, I must balance both responsibilities suggested by Northhouse, (2016) I must manage and lead.<\/p>\n
Management and leadership are complementary concepts and are mutually dependent. Management is essential for maintaining day to day success. Managers keep schedules, balance budgets, and place staff as needed; managers get the job done (Northhouse, 2016).\u00a0 Once healthy daily function is achieved, a leader is free to create vision, communicate goals, build teams, and empower followers (Northouse, 2016). Between the two, leadership is most important.\u00a0 If an organization is left only with management, then the status quo quickly becomes stale and the endeavor obsolete.\u00a0 In a small organization, is it possible for the same person to effectively hold both positions?<\/p>\n
Northouse, P. G. (2016).\u00a0Leadership: theory and practice<\/em>\u00a0(Seventh ed.). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And then I was assigned.\u00a0 At the beginning of my role as principal, the shift in my position involved changing desks from the classroom to the office.\u00a0 I had been assigned a new position in the school,\u00a0but for many months or even a year or two there were staff who had strong opinions about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit1","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}