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Leadership and management 

development compared

In some quarters the term ‘leadership development’ 

has  replaced  ‘management  development’,  perhaps 

because  the  importance  of  ensuring  that  people 

have leadership qualities has been recognized, while 

it is believed that they can be safely left to acquire 

management  skills  in  other  ways,  eg  experience. 

However, the two are different even though they are 

closely associated.

A rather simplistic way of differentiating the two 

is that leadership development tends to be concerned 

with nurturing the softer skills of leadership through 

various  educational  processes,  including  formal 

learning  events  and  programmes  and  coaching.  

This  is  illustrated  in  the  three  case  studies  at  the  

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