5 Ways On How To Fail as a Leader and How to Avoid Them

 5 Ways on How to Fail As a Leader and How to Avoid Them.

"He has failed as a leader or she has failed as a leader." You hear people say and wonder what it takes to be a failure in leadership role. Having the responsibility of leadership is a task. You need to handle it with a lot of care, to emerge as a great leader. I am here to discuss in what ways leaders fail in their mandate. Then if you will be able to do the opposite, then successful leader will be your name-tag. So which are this five ways to fail as a leader? And how do you avoid them?

1. Too Much Talking Without Listening

When all you do is just talk and talk without listening, you end up making silly mistakes. These are mistakes that could have been avoided by listening to that other person. If your leadership DNA does not have anything like listening, then failure is your portion. To avoid this failure learn to listen. Shut down all disruptions and listen carefully, you will be amazed with what you hear. This will even earn you respect among your team members.

2. Shifting Your Focus on Results At The Expense of People

 Focusing your energy on the results without caring about the people in the team will lead to your failure. Leaders who fail put all their energy on results and forget there is a team to make the results possible. Learn to understand the people in your team. Try and know more about them, their families and celebrate with them when results are good. Help people achieve results. In other words start with people towards results.

3. Forcing People to Follow You Because of Your Position

Failed leaders, believe that people will follow them simply because of their position. When you keep demanding people to follow you because of your office or title, then you are quickly headed to the books of failed leaders. This happens when you keep reminding your team who you are in terms of position. Well you can force through some decisions because of your position. But for how long is the question. Time and experience has proved that positional leadership never last. Earn your right to lead don't mandate it.

4. Stopping to Learn

As a leaders when you stop learning, then you are headed to the failed leaders list. The truth of the matter is the world is always changing and so stopping to learn makes you a yesterday leader. So you to succeed as a leader commit yourself to constant learning and self-development. Develop an ever-growing knowledge mentality.

5. Settling For Average

When you find yourself settling for average.  You are not willing to go an extra mile. You arrive late and leave early, then failure is quickly beckoning. Show your hunger of success by doing all that you can. Resist the urge to sell for average.

There we go. It’s now up to you to find immense value in this five things. Then I can assure you, your leadership will not remain the same. Avoid this five traits as a leader and your leadership graph will keep rising every single day.

The Author Dickson Mutashe is a Christian leadership Student at Rhema Bible College, In Nairobi Kenya. He has an experience of over 10 years in different leadership positions both in the church, business and corporate world.