to her ‘managers promote stability while leaders press for change and that organizations needed both sides to thrive.’
Continuing to differentiate between Leadership and Management, the resource person said ‘Leadership sets direction, develops vision for the future and identifies strategies while Management plans and budgets to produce underlying results but not change. Leadership also aligns people and communicates new direction while Management is about organizing and staffing. Leadership motivates and inspires people, keeping them moving in the right direction despite major obstacles, while Management is about controlling and problem solving.’ She said Management was also about planning and budgeting to produce underlying results, not change.
According to Dr (Mrs) Drafor-Amenyah ‘leadership is influence: it is the ability to obtain followers and get people to work for you when they are not obliged.’ She quoted John Maxwell’s saying that ‘You can love people without leading them but you cannot lead people without loving them.’ On influencing people, she said messages are not accepted just because they are understood. ‘It requires credibility and trust, she pointed out. She said influencing is about understanding the issue of power. She talked about two types of power, namely, positional power and personal power. Positional power, she said, was the one provided by the organization, and personal power was the one developed by the leader.
The talk also covered leadership dimensions ranging from diversity, gender, cultural, social, emotional intelligence, feedback and assertiveness. On diversity, she said different people saw things differently; while some focused on the task structure others focused on the process and were more fluid. While some were less formal, others were formal in posture. Dr (Mrs) Drafor-Amenyah made it clear that diversity was an asset to any organization and needed to be managed well. She advised participants to be careful about the judgement they made about people just because they were not like them. On gender, she admonished women in leadership to balance work and home life. She told them to have a clear vision, plan, strategy and they should manage their time well. She observed that male and female styles of leadership were not the same but it was important that they worked together effectively.

Present at the seminar were the Very Rev. Prof. S. K Adjepong, Principal of the Methodist University College Ghana, Mr. J.N Aryeetey, the Registrar, Prof. J.B Ofosu, Head, Department of Mathematics-Statistics, the Very Rev. Dr. Richard Foli, Head, Dept of Religious Studies and Ethics, Dr. Charles Jackson of the Department of Information Communication Technology (ICT), Mr. Frank Osei-Gyimah, Head, Department of Economics, other senior members, staff and students.