Four Leadership Traps That Prevent Accountability

Directive leadership is not dead and there are clearly times when we need to provide close feedback to our team members.  However, if we don’t fully equip and empower others, we become the lid as the leader for the entire organization.

My experience as an executive coach is most of the time the senior leader has not developed the skill set to effectively delegate and shift to a situational leadership style.  The other major issue is that because of that reality, we tend to hire followers not leaders.  This Forbes post hits on all of the major issues:

“Leaders in an organization wield a lot of power and responsibility. They set the tone for their team, make decisions that affect business outcomes, foster leadership in others and bear the brunt of responsibility when things go wrong.

With so much responsibility, it can be easy to fall into mental traps that prevent a leader from doing their job well and getting the outcomes they want from those they lead. The four most common traps seen at all levels of leadership are costly but can be avoided.”

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