Executive Coaching to Change Leadership Behaviors - Bad Habits That Hold You Back

When there are conflicts in the workplace it is usually because of poor communication or interpersonal communication challenges. Leaders are challenged on a daily basis to interact effectively with others. The most successful leaders are emotionally intelligent agile. They know how to read people and are savvy in their communications.

In my executive coaching practice over the last twenty years, I have noticed a consistent pattern of bad behaviors displayed by less socially intelligent leaders. These bad behaviors can be unlearned and a more effective communication style developed.

The good news is that better interpersonal skills can be learned and emotional intelligence improved.

Executive Coaching to Change Leadership Behaviors - Bad Habits That Hold You Back

Before we can discuss how to deal with counterproductive behaviors, we must identify the most common problem areas. This special breed of flaws centers on how we interact with other people.

Please note that we are not talking about deficiencies in skill or intelligence. By the time you are promoted to a high level of responsibility in your organization, you have already demonstrated sufficient competencies and office smarts.

The most common bad leadership habits are not personality flaws, either although it may sometimes appear so. Remedying them does not require medication or therapy.

What we are really dealing with here are challenges in interpersonal behavior or the egregious annoyances that make the workplace substantially more noxious than necessary. These faults do not occur in isolation; they involve one person interacting with another.

Executive coach Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Will Not Get You There compiled the following list of negative habits after years of working with top executives in Fortune 500 companies. Some of the qualities cited are subtle, while others are glaringly obvious. Often, they may not appear to be harmful on the surface; in reality, they are bona fide detriments.

1. Winning too much. The need to win at all costs and in all situations when it matters and even when it does not, when it is totally beside the point.

2. Adding too much value. The overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion.

3. Passing judgment. The need to rate others and impose our standards on them.

4. Making destructive comments. The needless sarcasm and cutting remarks that we think make us sound sharp and witty.

5. Starting with no, but or however. The overuse of these negative qualifiers, which secretly convey to everyone, I am right. You are wrong.

6. Telling the world how smart we are. The need to show people we are smarter than they think we are.

7. Speaking when angry. Using emotional volatility as a management tool.

8. Negativity (Let me explain why that will not work.). The need to share our negative thoughts, even when we have not been asked to do so.

9. Withholding information. The refusal to share information so we can maintain an advantage over others.

10. Failing to give proper recognition. The inability to praise and reward.

11. Claiming credit we do not deserve. The most annoying way to overestimate our contribution to any success.

12. Making excuses. The need to reposition our annoying behavior as a permanent fixture so people will excuse us for it.

13. Clinging to the past. The need to deflect blame away from ourselves and onto events and people from our past; a subset of blaming everyone else.

14. Playing favorites. Failing to see that we are treating someone unfairly.

15. Refusing to express regret. The inability to take responsibility for our actions, admit we are wrong or recognize how our actions affect others.

16. Not listening. The most passive-aggressive form of disrespect for our colleagues.

17. Failing to express gratitude. The most basic form of bad manners.

18. Punishing the messenger. The misguided need to attack the innocent who, usually, are only trying to help us.

19. Passing the buck. The need to blame everyone but ourselves.

20. An excessive need to be me. Exalting our faults as virtues, simply because they embody who we are.

This is a scary group of bad behaviors, however most people exhibit only one or two simultaneously.

Working with a seasoned executive coach trained in emotional intelligence and incorporating leadership assessments such as the BarOn EQi and CPI 260 can help you identify any bad leadership habits and develop emotional intelligence and social intelligence competency.

Executive Coaching to Change Leadership Behaviors - Bad Habits That Hold You Back
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6 Management Strategies For Organizational Change Success

Human beings tend to resist anything they view as stressful, and let's face it, organizational changes are about as stressful as it can get!

For most of us, familiarity with our surroundings, our relationships and our working environment allows us to reside safely inside our comfort zone. And comfort equals security.

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But when our comfort zone is detonated by changes in management or organizational systems, we implode, seeking the shelter of our innate desire to resist, at all costs.

6 Management Strategies For Organizational Change Success

Changes that occur outside of our control force us to adapt to new rules, new systems and new policies which can, at the outset, make us feel uncomfortable and insecure.

However, a responsible and responsive management team can intercede before staff resistance spreads like the plague and threatens the smooth transition of organizational changes.

Effective team leaders acknowledge and understand that it is a basic human instinct to react to change with resistance, even though staff may fully comprehend the reasons why changes in the organization are vital to its existence and growth.

6 Management Strategies to Avert Resistance

1. A clear outline - Discomfort and insecurity arises when staff are not made aware of the policies, principles, guidelines and structure of intended changes. Every employee needs to know how his/her position will be affected and what his/her role requires.
2. Commitment -Implementation of organizational changes will not occur smoothly if everyone - from the CEO to the office clerk - is not committed to the project and its successful outcome.
3. Advocacy - Each member of an organization who may be affected by the impending changes must be given the opportunity to express his/her opinion.
4. Responsibility - It is the role of the team leader to ensure that each employee who is responsible for a component of the change strategy is held accountable for his/her actions in implementing the changes required.
5. Acknowledgement - Evaluation and acknowledgement of the success of the change strategy at regular intervals ensures its smooth implementation.
6. Flexibility - Management needs to adopt a flexible approach to each stage of development of a change strategy so that unforeseen contingencies can be implemented, if and where necessary.

It only takes one irresolute employee to destabilize an entire workforce, so periods of internal change within an organization require management to stay vigilant for any signs of rumblings or disapproval.

Long-standing employees can feel betrayed and rejected when changes are announced by management. They often experience a sense of loss, confusion, frustration and job insecurity. The plan for job advancement they have often calculated appears to be shot to pieces.

So they react with denial and resistance to the imminent changes.

Management's ability to recognize these patterns of behavior and work to overcome any resistance establishes how well they will accomplish organizational changes. Their willingness to invest in the support and training necessary is an integral factor in achieving a positive outcome.

Employees aren't the only ones who have to adapt to changes within the organization.

Top level managers generally bear the brunt of discontented staff from the ground up. Senior managers who have been instrumental in bringing about the changes within the organization often underestimate the impact those changes will have on their employees.

Unrealistic expectations of how their staff will react (or over-react!) often causes top level managers to retreat and isolate themselves from the problem when the impact of their proposed changes filter back to them.

However, they tend to lay the blame at the feet of middle management if employees resist or complain about the changes.

Middle management tend to carry the most stress during times of organizational change. They feel "trapped", unless they have exceptional leadership skills; besieged by resistant employees who look to them for guidance yet often denied direction and focus by top level management.

Those in middle management often find themselves acting as the arbiter during times of organizational upheaval.

However, organizational changes within a business often prove to be a suitable testing ground for leadership qualities; from the employees all the way through to top level management.

Those who possess the qualities that define a good leader often emerge during the stressful environment that usually accompanies change. This creates an ideal opportunity for potential leaders to display those qualities and be recognized accordingly.

6 Management Strategies For Organizational Change Success

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