The fact is, every leader faces a slump from time to time:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 The wins just aren\u2019t happening,<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 The plan just isn\u2019t coming together,<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2013 The team just isn\u2019t responding,<\/strong><\/p>\n You get the idea.<\/strong><\/p>\n When that happens there can be a great temptation to avoid the sometimes hard, grueling, long road that leadership often requires. It\u2019s in these seasons of struggle that the lure to take a sneaky leadership shortcut can be almost irresistible.<\/strong><\/p>\n But should you give in to a shortcut, you run the risk of taking 3 significant leadership blows:<\/strong><\/p>\n So, what are those leadership shortcuts? Here are three of the most common, and deadly temptations you could face\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Moving people or organizations forward requires the hard work of leadership. It requires vision casting, team building, and difficult conversations.<\/p>\n But instead of doing this hard work, some leaders will opt instead to simply churn out a few policies.<\/p>\n Policies might have their place. Just don\u2019t confuse them with leadership.<\/p>\n When a leader loses their cool, it\u2019s like a child throwing a temper tantrum. Both are frustrated that they\u2019re not getting their way. And so they pitch a fit.<\/p>\n But if you give in to this, it can create the illusion that there has been a leadership accomplishment. But \u2018powering up\u2019 isn\u2019t the same as leadership. It\u2019s more like bullying.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s just another shortcut.<\/p>\n \u2026or reorganizing\u00a0anything<\/em>.<\/p>\n A leader paralyzed with indecision will sometimes whip out a piece of paper or run to a white board and start drawing boxes, circles and lines with abandon.<\/p>\n In time a brand new exciting organization chart can emerge, and the resulting change in reporting structures can provide yet another illusion that real leadership has taken place.<\/p>\n But, once again, it hasn\u2019t. It\u2019s just another shortcut.<\/p>\n Face it. Sometimes leadership is just hard. Moving a group of people forward requires tremendous effort and tenacity.<\/p>\n And in the midst of it all it can be very tempting to simply take one of these shortcuts.<\/p>\n But resist these easy \u2018outs\u2019. Stick to the hard work of leadership.<\/p>\n The results will be worth it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you’re in a leadership slump, the temptation to take a shortcut can be overwhelming.\u00a0But if you succumb to those temptations you can be inflicting unseen damage to your leadership. The fact is, every leader faces a slump from time to time: \u2013 The wins just aren\u2019t happening, \u2013 The plan just isn\u2019t coming together,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,769,5,738,478,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action","category-culture-2","category-discipline2","category-effectiveness-2","category-featured","category-leadership","category-temptation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6359,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions\/6359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u2013\u00a0Loss of credibility,<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\u2013\u00a0Confusion on the team,<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\u2013\u00a0Slowing of momentum.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Creating policies<\/strong><\/h2>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Losing your cool<\/strong><\/h2>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Creating a new org chart<\/strong><\/h2>\n