Preventing Derailment: What To Do Before It's Too Late

Becoming an Active Learner

Many managers have variety in their leadership experience and get excellent feedback, yet derail because try as they do, they cannot escape past habits.

Although they learn rapidly when confronted with technical challenges, they use the same management behaviors over and over. They know one way to build a team or use one or two motivational tactics. In brief, they are poor at making transitions. They apply old skills to new situations without asking “What’s different here? What challenges do I face that require me to learn to do something differently? Must I learn to be strategic? To let go? To motivate a disgruntled staff? To hire people for the first time?”

While we might assume that any competent manager would automatically ...