ACQUISITION OF NEW WAYS OF WORKING AND THE LETTING GO OF OLD WAYS

Derailment can happen to anyone of us.  Individuals go off track due to both internal and external factors.  Two things happen to leaders as they climb higher up the corporate ladder:

• It’s lonely up there
• It’s not so much about your competence as it is about your character

The important key area here is:

• EQ
• Have a more balance sense of task and people

Each transaction in our work life requires both the acquisition of new ways of working and the letting go of old ways of working in three key areas:

• Skills capabilities
• Working time focus
• values

As leaders move to a new position, doing the same thing as what had provided them success previously may not always is the best way.  The most important elements of a person’s success are usually forgotten that is the job and the culture fit.  There are four quick facts about all of us:

• who you are is more important than what you can do
• lack of self/other awareness
• we are always who we are
• derailment is not inevitable, but without attention to development, it is probable

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Have you gone off course?

Talking HR by Elissa Dass

StarBiz, Tuesday 2 April 2013