Any growth process includes the inevitable stumbling blocks. Leadership growth is no different.

, Management Consultant in the Organization Effectiveness practice of Slalom Consulting, in the past few months, has worked with several leaders who were navigating significant new challenges in their roles.  The differences between those who managed these situations successfully and those who didn’t often showed itself in their responses to these very common blocks to leadership growth:

  1. Believing that it can’t happen to you
  2. Ignoring the usefulness of mistakes
  3. Refusing help
  4. Not asking for the right things
  5. Not letting your team do its job
  6. Lack of functional credibility
  7. Lack of leadership process credibility
  8. Not enough courage to let go of yesterday’s tools
  9. An inability to face the power dynamics of leadership
  10. A good memory. Too good

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