Complete Leadership

I need to change . . . Some notes on ‘competing

commitments’

As the case above illustrates, the route to effecting lasting change in

leadership behaviour is not straightforward.

A common experience is the following: you accept the challenge to

improve; you are fired up to achieve it. You accept that you must

communicate with your team more, for example, or that you will

respond to an individual’s failings with some extra coaching, rather

than with a scolding or by setting an even tougher challenge.

Conversely, you may need to give more direction and discipline to a

wayward and aimless team and enforce the norms and expectations

more clearly.

But your initial ...