Supervisor's Survival Kit: Your First Step into Management, Ninth Edition

YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A MANAGER/LEADER

For most workers the leadership-building process starts when they become supervisors. Some may get a head start through experience as club officers, team captains, chairpersons, and officers in trade or volunteer organizations, but supervisory jobs are the primary leadership builders.

It is possible to be a good supervisor without being a good leader, but it is impossible to be a good leader without being a good supervisor or manager. Those who become leaders without first becoming supervisors must ultimately learn management skills such as setting priorities, learning to delegate, and other principles and techniques covered in this book. They must do these things to free themselves to lead. Many supervisors ...