Four Common Errors that Limit a Leader’s Ability to Influence

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Four Common Errors that Limit a Leaders Ability
to Influence
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Commanding Officer, Recruiting Station Orange
County

• There are many roles people take on that require
  leadership such as, being a parent, a teacher, a
  coach, a friend, or a key person within an
  organization or group. Unfortunately, leadership
  is often mislabeled, misrepresented, and not
  clearly understood. One of the great leadership
  gurus, Warren Bennis compared leadership to
  beauty. To an extent, leadership is like beauty
  Its hard to define, but you know it when you see
  it.

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Commanding Officer, Recruiting Station Orange
County Cont.
Leadership deals with people. Its learning to
gain the advantage through the perceived barter
of taking them to their next level in life.
Leaders drive action by being able to influence
peoples interpretation to the environment and
their reaction to events.  When we were born, our
minds were pure, natural, and whole, as if to
represent a blank canvass ready to be designed
into a unique masterpiece shaped by our
environment and the influencers within our life.
A leader is only as effective as their ability to
be able to generate the confidence and positive
energy within people to do what is required to
win. No one has ever said leadership is easy.
Avoiding the common errors of leadership will
give you the advantage of bringing your people to
a state that allows them to dominate.
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Common Error 1 Inability to Connect.

• A common trap that leaders fall into is looking
  at others as though they are a reflection of
  themselves thinking that everyone should have
  the same drive, work ethic, motivation, desires,
  and understanding as they do. People are unique
  in the way that they think and interpret the
  environment. A great leader seeks to understand
  individual desires, needs, talents, fears, and
  reactions to situations. Being able to see the
  situation through their perspective will gain
  their confidence to do whatever is required to
  win.

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Common Error 2 Lack of emotional control.

• A leader controls the emotional health of an
  organization. Our emotions directly correlate
  with our thoughts, actions, and decisions.
  Leaders often feel the pressure of meeting
  intense time lines and demands that add levels of
  stress. However, they cannot allow this to
  produce emotions that are contrary to building a
  winning team. Emotions are contagious. When a
  leader is aggravated, the reaction of their
  people will be that of aggravation. When everyone
  is aggravated, their thoughts, decisions, and
  actions are consistent with what aggravated
  people do. Leaders must maintain control of their
  emotions and resist the urge to create chaos by
  generating emotional states that are
  counterintuitive to winning.

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Common Error 3 Lack of Respect.

• Having people under your charge does not give you
  the right to disrespect them by yelling and
  berating.  That is not leadership, it is a temper
  tantrum. Its childish behavior that creates an
  environment of fear and being out of control.
  When you push your people into a state of fear,
  they lose their creativity, desire to excel, and
  ability to accept risks. Organizations are
  defined by the uniqueness and brilliance of their
  people. The fastest way to marginalize your
  people is to create an environment of disrespect
  and fear.  People do things with the intention of
  being successful therefore, when they dont
  produce the results you are looking for, seek to
  understand what the person was thinking and make
  it an educational experience. Your responsibility
  as a leader is to train, mentor, and develop your
  people to be successful.

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Common Error 4 No longer seeking personal
development.

• Leaders will often become overwhelmed with their
  responsibilities and forget about their own
  personal development. Great leaders become
  obsessed with becoming more effective in
  influencing people by regularly attending
  seminars, reading books, creating discussion
  groups, and other activities directed at personal
  growth and development. Leaders must maintain a
  strong desire to be coachable and a student of
  life.

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