Kashbox Coach Note: Corporate Coaching
Around 65% of millennials believe they’re not equipped to be leaders yet, as they lack the necessary employer support for management positions. Leadership training and corporate coaching are still necessary, as people understand the responsibilities such positions often require.
7 deadly leadership sins:
1. Not Knowing Who You Are
It’s not uncommon for our image of ourselves to vastly differ from how others perceive us. Leaders who are not confident in their strengths and know their weaknesses can easily become their worst enemies.
2. Avoiding Difficult Conversations
It’s human nature to want to avoid difficult conversations. Yet, leaders can’t always afford this luxury. To be a good leader, you must be comfortable with opposing views and standing your ground. Difficult conversations are often necessary to facilitate change and improve operations.
3. Focusing on Being Liked
Speaking of human nature, we all want to be well-liked in any group: family, friends, and at work. However, while being well-liked is certainly important for a leader, this idea cannot become a guiding force in your decision-making.
4. Avoiding Decisions
There’s no other way to do it: leaders must always make decisions, some of which are hard. One pitfall is trying to postpone or even avoid the process because of the fear of failure. This can hinder organizational growth and even impact one’s growth as a leader and professional.
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5. Not Facilitating Change
A leader’s job is to help the organization and its employees grow. They are a conductor of change, so they must be flexible enough to adapt to such changes. When leaders hinder change because they prefer the status quo, this is a huge issue for the entire organization.
6. Ineffective Communication
Communication skills can often make or break a leader. They must be well-versed in all mechanisms of language, be they verbal, non-verbal, or written. Often, they need to facilitate or encourage communication within the conversation, which is rather impossible without solid communication skills.
7. Not Focusing on Your Potential
People often view a leadership position as the prize in the career race. However, getting to the finish line doesn’t mean your growth journey stops here. Good leaders know they must always grow their potential and skills and look outside themselves for assistance in leading a team or an organization.
How Corporate Coaching Can Make Good Leaders
We’ve seen that people often require specialized support to navigate the new leadership challenges. One-on-one corporate coaching can help individuals get this support and avoid the seven deadly sins of leadership.
It depends on whether the sins can be avoided entirely. Error is human, but how a leader bounces back from these errors is more indicative of their leadership abilities than whether they can avoid them altogether.
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