Managers are often given conflicting advice on how to successfully lead teams.

Leadership experts talk about the style of leadership required in the modern world to be changing. I disagree.

Most people will agree that being a manager is about position. Being a leader is about behaviour. Many will have experienced a manager who leads poorly and a team member who leads well.

If leadership is about demonstrated behaviour, then as we’re genetically no different to 300 years ago, what made a good or poor leader then, still applies. It’s the requirements of management that have changed.

One of the biggest mistake’s companies make is confusing management with leadership and investing in ‘management’ training with the expectation that it will create great leaders. It’s like giving someone ‘legal training’ and expecting them to be a great police officer.