Learn about these four negative habits or traits that can diminish your respect as a leader.
There are many excellent subject-matter experts that pen books and articles about gaining and exhibiting specific leadership qualities. Some authors are so well known that their names are now synonymous with success. If a leader or manager doesn’t have a prescribed trait, there are also countless guides and reading materials to help teach or hone that needed leadership skill. Just type a Google search in to any Web browser and — voila! You will find enough reading material to feed an army of hungry or satiated, old or young, new or existing leaders.
In this article, rather than trying to focus on gaining those needed leadership qualities, I would like to discuss four negative habits or traits that can cause leadership loss. What’s critical to point out here is that when someone is offered a leadership role for the first time ever or for the first time with a new company, they simply cannot afford to lose that opportunity because they weren’t aware of or working to improve all their qualities — good and bad. Many are the times when leadership opportunities just disappear and don’t present themselves again; there is always someone willing and able to step in and take on that role.