Sunday, January 12, 2014

You might be a weak leader if …


No one on your team has criticized one of your ideas in the past month (or offered you a breath mint ever).
You spend more time planning your own career progression than planning that of your team members.
You don't know the names of one child or spouse/partner/parent for 90 percent of your team members (for teams less than 35 people) or 50 percent for teams over 35 people).
You don't have at least three completely non-work-related conversations with a team member per week.
Different team members would provide different answers if asked your top three priorities for the year.
Team members are afraid to fail.
You ask team members to work harder than you do.
You tend not to hire people smarter than you.
You couldn't explain in some detail what your team members do.
Conversation changes when you walk into the break room or join the conference call.
Rarely do team members proactively ask for your coaching, feedback, or mentoring.
Your team has no vehicle for honest feedback (on what's working and what's not) on a regular basis.
You talk about your accomplishments more than your team members'.
Team members (more than one or two) are surprised at their appraisal ratings at the end of the year.
You haven't admitted a failure to your team in the past six months.
You haven't proactively taken a professional development course in the past twelve months.
You couldn't name a couple key accomplishments for each team member each year.
You haven't truly asked a favor of someone on your team or shared something that made you vulnerable in the past three months.
You haven't covered/taken the blame for someone on your team making a mistake in the past six months.

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