Following our hugely popular blog about bad leadership habits we co-created the list of the biggest leadership mistakes people have experienced. We ran a co-creation arena to figure this out and our participants identified more than 60 different leadership mistakes they have experienced. Out of those sixty the six worst ones are uncovered in this blog.
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In the Nordics we are done with summer vacays. So we are ready for the adventures that fall will bring, before the winter comes.
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It’s fashionable to fail fast and why not! Better lose some money and time immediately rather than completely screw up later. However, failing all the time does not help you succeed any more than giving 200 boring speeches makes you an interesting presenter.
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If you are a leader, the chances are you like being in control. Do you remember the time, when you were not a leader? Did your boss happened to love being in control as well? Maybe you have spent your time in never ending sales meeting concentrating on meaningless details about next month’s targets or yawned in an internal process training not knowing the purpose of it.
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During my years at big corporations I participated and contributed in several strategy preparations. In the process of making there was typically a “head of strategy” leading the strategy work and it took months to finalise. Once the slide set was ready it was barely explained to the leadership team and team leaders who were supposed to implement the strategy. The small preparation team ran out of steam and the company continued as before.
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Effective leadership is all about communication. It is about supporting your staff by answering the right questions in the right way. Better communication is the way to improved employee engagement and better profitability. More communication is not always better communication. There are certain kind of answers you should not give or you risk reducing employee engagement. Here’s a list of four types of answers that make you a bad leader.
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It is ok to admit it. We’ve all been there, at least almost all of us. And the longer you’ve been in the game the greater the changes that you’ve been there more than once. It’s a pain to work under a bad management. But what is it that separates the bad boss from an average or a good one?
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Many minds can amplify creativity and create something much more diverse than just one. A co-created view of any topic helps people to commit to shared decisions and goals and work with better motivation.
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