Are you making these 2 mistakes as a new leader?

Emerging leaders are promoted because they’ve been good at a technical or functional role.

That makes sense since you wouldn’t promote anyone who wasn’t performing.

There’s a problem though when the person in the new leadership role continues to work as they did before.

The 2 most common mistakes new leaders make are they don’t:

❌ Let go of their comfort zone being the expert
❌ Delegate or empower their team.

Working in this manner isn’t just isolated to new leaders because more experienced leaders are also guilty of behaving this way.

However, when this is let to fester for a while, the team’s performance and morale drop while the leader becomes a bottleneck.

This is why new and experienced leaders need to give themselves every chance of being successful by embedding a rhythm that is scalable and sustainable.

Leading a team starts with leading yourself. Effective personal productivity 101 is your savior.

Those who find time to lead, coach, mentor, and support their team reaps the rewards…

🙋 Are new leaders time-poor more so due to increased workloads or not leveraging their team?