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DON'T DERAIL YOUR TRAINAs we rise up the corporate ladder, leaders are required to become more We-Centric. And as business challenges grow bigger and more complex, leaders are expected to set the tone for mutual success. We-Centric Leadership can be learned, and the key is to go beyond your own ego and live through practices of inclusivity.
1. Leaders who fail to build mutual relationships with others. Those who seem to manipulate others to serve their own ends create a backlash and lose both trust and respect.
Examples:
-Leaders who exhort employees to work hard, and then take all the credit.
-Leaders who promise promotions in order to get employees to work harder
and conveniently forget the promise.
-Leaders who are extremely directive and controlling, and act that way for
their gain and benefit (self-importance) rather than for organizational
purposes.
Sometimes, leaders become so incredibly focused on their own agendas and creating their own success that they do so at the expense of others. When it becomes clear to others that these leaders are out for their own self-interest, these leaders lose the support of the people who can help get them to their next leadership level, not to mention help them succeed. 2. Problems occur when leaders make themselves the center of attention rather than make the company the primary focus. When leaders are out solely to protect their own future, they fail to consider the organization's goals and objectives. After a while employees will see that they are not an organizational person but are out for themselves.
Examples:
-Leaders who encourage employees to hide information from other
departments because it makes their department look better.
-Leaders who promote their own division's work to gain attention from the top
brass, knowing it will make others look bad.
-Leaders who are constantly acting or speaking in a self-serving way publicly.
3. Leaders fail when they do not manage their own bio-reactive behaviors. We all react to emotional triggers . That is part of what makes us human. But to succeed, one needs to learn how to transform reactive behavior into proactive behavior. Without control over our own reactions, we are carriers of potentially lethal negativity and reactivity. Examples:
-Leaders who react to conflict by avoiding it, rather than learning to deal with it
properly.
-Leaders who react to fear with aggression rather than by being assertive.
-Leaders who react to power struggles by acquiescing rather than by direct
confrontation.
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