 | #86 - Pitfalls to watch out for as a leaderposted by Justin Barry, Group AdministratorTuesday, October 19th 2010 @ 12:33 AM |
As a leader we need to be aware of our OWN pitfalls, otherwise things can go downhill very quickly!!
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If not all, most leadership behavioral problems are a result of strengths that are over-used. If you take a look at Hogan Development Survey (HDS) assessments, it measures the behavioral tendencies that if overused have proven to lead to leadership failure. Hogan refers to them as “the dark side” of leadership. It’s based on years of research and has been extensively normed and validated.
So Leaders out there, please watch out for these characteristics:
NB: please note that these characteristics serve us well in moderation, so just don’t get too carried away with any of them, or your dark side just may show up and bite you!
1. Excitable: moody, easily annoyed, hard to please, and emotionally volatile
2. Skeptical: distrustful, cynical, sensitive to criticism, and focused on the negative
3. Cautious: unassertive, resistant to change, risk-averse, and slow to make decisions
4. Reserved: aloof, indifferent to the feelings of others, and uncommunicative
5. Leisurely: overtly cooperative, but privately irritable, stubborn, and uncooperative
6. Bold: overly self-confident, arrogant, with inflated feelings of self-worth
7. Mischievous: charming, risk-taking, limit-testing and excitement-seeking
8. Colorful: dramatic, attention-seeking, interruptive, and poor listening skills
9. Imaginative: creative, but thinking and acting in unusual or eccentric ways
10. Diligent: meticulous, precise, hard to please, and tends to micromanage
11. Dutiful: eager to please and reluctant to act independently or against popular opinion
I’m sure there must be more, do you have any examples!
