Top 3 Leadership TRAPS for leaders at all levels…

Number 1. Trying to be TOO confident and losing the balance with being humble. Too much confidence becomes arrogance. Don’t go there. 

Number 2. Focusing too hard on the KPIs and deadlines, and forgetting you work with PEOPLE. It’s JUST as much your job to look after after your team as it is to look after the numbers. 

Number 3. Starting too much and never getting finished. You have to DELIVER. Get results. Make change HAPPEN. If you have too much on, you’ll get stuck and get nowhere.

Avoid these traps and you’ll make more progress, and feel better while you’re doing it.

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Professor Ben Cosh provides confident, collegiate leadership in universities. He is currently Provost at UTP in Malaysia. Previously he was Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education Modernisation at Kent and Dean of Science at Reading.

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