It's really easy ? and highly tempting - to blame poor performance on other people or circumstances? but are you yourself the problem? Are you really fit to lead?
For instance, do you ever find yourself repeating behaviours such as; recruiting the wrong people; having key people leave unexpectedly; getting yourself overloaded?
We all have patterns that keep coming back ? good or bad. It's worth investing some time in self analysis ? taking that long hard look in the mirror ? to check out whether we're really as good as we'd like to believe ? or even need to be to take our businesses forward in these challenging times.
So I spoke to Productivity Specialist Hilary Briggs of R2P Ltd and asked her for her top tips…
When strengths become weaknesses
"One pattern I've recognized is my optimistic streak." says Hilary. "In many situations it's a great strength; I have had superb results overcoming major challenges ranging from a recovery after a factory fire through to managing tight cashflow situations.? However, at other times it's been a detriot tigers black and blue hats weakness as it's meant I've missed things. For instance; overly focusing on the opportunities, I got involved far too hastily with one company five years ago and ended up having to put it into liquidation."
In other words, our greatest detriot tigers black and blue hats strengths overextended become our biggest weaknesses. ?Hilary has seen clients who are complete perfectionists, yet find it hard to get employees who can match their standards; others who are very focused on short term results, but find longer term strategy more difficult; or others who are really creative with new ideas, yet find it tough to make hard choices in the day-to-day business.
The solution is to find people you can work with in some way that will counterbalance your qualities. For instance, on a personal level Hilary now checks out ideas
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