Common Leadership Mistakes
No one makes right decisions
every time. No one is infallible. No one has all negative or all
positive traits. No one exercises good judgment one hundred percent of
the time.
The following list represents some of the most common
management and leadership mistakes that, if ignored over time, will have significant
negative consequences on the performance of a department or
organization.
The items below are not listed in any type of order. Review this list carefully, and ask yourself where you are on the spectrum for some of these behaviors and characteristics:
- A greater concern with WHO says it or doesn't say it or who did it or who didn't do it rather than with WHAT is best for the organization and it's future health and welfare.
- Not really listening to employees or caring about their issues, concerns, needs or frustrations.
- Letting your ego get in the way of good decisions, actions, choices or behaviors.
- Personal agendas that get in the way of overall the success of the
organization or sabotage the effectiveness of employee performance.
- Seeing people who deliver bad news as negative, poor team players or trouble makers.
- Seeking only information that supports your own views, positions, values, perceptions opinions.
- Seeing disagreement as disloyalty and/or discouraging disagreement.
- Not talking with those who will be affected by decisions or who must carry them out before making them.
- Taking the credit and giving the blame.
- Lack of open, honest, clear and consistent communication.
- Not communicating organizational direction and goals clearly and consistently.
- Giving inadequate or inconsistent positive appreciation, feedback or reinforcement.
- Inadequate or poor mentoring and coaching.
- Giving responsibility without authority.
- Playing favorites with certain employees.
- A lack of well-timed and effectively delivered negative feedback.
- A lack of understanding that negative feedback is not to punish employees but to change behavior.
Source: Special thanks to Tim Connor, speaker, trainer and best selling author.
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Quotes to Inspire
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines
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Lou Holtz
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