How to become a manager who is also considered as a leader

Just because your job title says "manager", do not consider yourself as a leader. Managers are hired to do the managerial job description for an organization. Leaders are the people that other people anonymously vote as a person they trust. Yes, leadership is not job description. You can be the manager for someone, while your employees consider someone who is not a manager their leader. Is leadership something you can learn in the classroom? Yes and no. You can learn the basic concepts for leadership inside the classroom, but at the end of the day you need to go out there in the field, scrape your knees, make tons of mistakes, and be embarrassed by employees to learn what a leadership is. Some of us are struggling because our leadership style is not effective for our team, but we do not know how to implement the change. That is why we are here. We are here to explore different types of leaders by going through pros and cons of certain leadership style. You need to know what it is like being an employee with a terrible leadership. You are also here because you want to transform yourself from just being a manager to becoming a reputable leader in your field.