Library
Home
A A A
Share »
Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on LinkedIn
Connect »

Blog: Human Resources

Menu

  • This Blog's Home
  • Guest Writer Submissions
  • Policies
  • To Subscribe to a Blog
  • About
  • Feedback

Are you ready to lead?

By Sheri Mazurek on March 2, 2011

Throughout my career, I have spent a great deal of time speaking with employees and potential employees about their career goals and paths. Almost always when I interview a candidate, they tell me that they are looking for a job that has growth potential and that they see themselves in a leadership position. It sounds so similar from every candidate that I am sure that this response has been programmed into them like a type of brainwashing. It makes me smile inside for a split second while I listen to the response. Obviously as a recruiter, I don’t accept that as a final answer.

When I am meeting with employees, there seems to be a similar response and not just from the top performers. I get the response from the majority of the folks and despite the fact that they have no idea how to lead or even what it might entail, often they seem to want to be promoted. It’s like other natural progressions in life. I wonder how many of the married or divorced folks out there followed the dating, engaged, and married progression because it is an expected norm in our society. (And we can’t forget to add the live together phase in that progression.) And then at some point into the path, they realize that marriage is hard and it takes work and compromise and some degree of emotional intelligence and communication skills to work. And everyone can seem to identify with a bad spouse as equally as they can identify with a bad manager. Even if you can’t articulate it, you know it when you see it.

So how do you know whether it is right for you to follow this progression? Are you a good fit for the leadership ladder or are you better suited in a different role. See below for a few signs that you are not ready:

  • You often say things that hurt people’s feelings.
  • You would rather just do things yourself for fear that others will mess it up or not follow through.
  • You are afraid to tell people the truth for fear of conflict.
  • You want the job because it pays more or provides you with power over others.
  • You don’t want to share your rationale behind decisions you make.
  • You take over the job’s of others because  they are too incompetent or too slow.
  • You have no patience with new employees.
  • You assume everyone is motivated in the same way you are.
  • If someone disagrees with you, you automatically think they are stupid.
  • You have a difficult time controlling your emotions at work and often say things you regret later.

—

For more resources, See the Human Resources library.

—

Sheri Mazurek is a training and human resource professional with over 16 years of management experience, and is skilled in all areas of employee management and human resource functions, with a specialty in learning and development. She is available to help you with your Human Resources and Training needs on a contract basis. For more information send an email to smazurek0615@gmail.com or visit www.sherimazurek.com. Follow me on twitter @Sherimaz.

« Previous Next »

Search Our Site

Meet the Blog’s Host

Sheri Mazurek is a training and human resource professional with over 15 years of management experience, and is skilled in all areas of employee management and human resource functions, with a specialty in learning and development. [Read more ...]

Recent Blog Posts

  • What I Learned about Leadership from the Blue and Gold
  • Keeping Employees Motivated & Slick as Ice in the Summer
  • From a fuzzy idea to a survey to actionable intelligence: How to plan an employee survey to encourage organizational change.
  • Resume Fail
  • Words of Wisdom
  • Protect Them
  • Are You Ready for the Talent Management Storm?
  • 2013 Predictions are In
  • Happy New Year
  • My Holiday Wishes for You

Categories of Posts

  • Basics and Overviews
  • Benefis and Compensation
  • Employee Performance Mgmnt
  • General Resources
  • Recruiting and Hiring
  • Talent Management
  • Uncategorized
  • Workforce Job Planning

Related Library Topics

  • Benefits and Compensation
  • Career Development
  • Employee Orientation
  • Employee Performance Mgmnt
  • Employment Law
  • Hiring
  • Human Resource Management
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Outsourcing
  • Personnel Policies
  • Recruiting
  • Screening Applicants
  • Talent Management
  • Training and Development
  • Workforce Planning

Library's Blogs

  • Boards of Directors
  • Building a Business
  • Business Communications
  • Business Ethics, Culture and Performance
  • Business Planning
  • Career Management
  • Coaching and Action Learning
  • Consulting and Organizational Development
  • Crisis Management
  • Customer Service
  • Facilitation
  • Free Management Library Blogs
  • Fundraising for Nonprofits
  • Human Resources
  • Leadership
  • Marketing and Social Media
  • Nonprofit Capacity Building
  • Project Management
  • Quality Management
  • Social Enterprise
  • Spirituality
  • Strategic Planning
  • Supervision
  • Team Building and Performance
  • Training and Development

Free Management Library, © Copyright Authenticity Consulting, LLC; All rights reserved
Wordpress supported by Caitlin Cahill

Provided by

Authenticity Consulting, LLC
  • Contact Info
  • Legal
  • Privacy