Enabling Leaders

Are you a leader who is currently enabling (unconscious or conscious) the bad behaviors of your people?  If you are, you have a lot of company.  This type of influence is a big contributor to why people fire their leaders/managers.  Environments where this dysfunction is allowed, are lacking in every way imaginable.

Now here’s a surprise…enabling is common to human beings.  We all tend to want to avoid confrontation.  Therefore, we avoid issues and behaviors in the name of "peace."  Sadly, avoiding the issue makes things worse.  Eventually, it will mean a messy clean-up.

I’ve had to learn (and still learning) that you must make tackling issues an act of will.  Without this, you’ll convince yourself that there must be another way. 

Once you’ve determined what the right thing to do is, then act and don’t think about the consequences.  Doing the right thing will take care of the consequences, and your people will be inspired by your willingness to act.