Presentation #3: Why leaders fail and how to avoid it happening to you
Who is this presentation for?
- Business and Team Leaders, Managers, and those aspiring to leadership positions.
- Leadership and Business Coaches, Human Resources Professionals and those responsible for conducting Leadership Development Programs.
Why this presentation is important?
No one, including those who are highly intelligent, is immune to thinking errors and biases. That’s because most decisions that people make are not based on logic as many think, but instead are formed from general impressions, feelings, intuition and limited evidence. Which means that people tend to get things wrong more often than not.
So how does this apply to people in management and leadership positions? Well they too make thinking errors and as a result hold beliefs that aren’t always based on fact. A few of the more prominent errors being,
- The “better than average” effect.
- Confirmation bias.
- Nice guys/gals finish last.
- The “over-simplification” fallacy.
- The “curse of knowledge”.
- The “illusion of truth” effect.
- “Show me the money” fallacy.
- Giving “constructive” feedback improves employee performance.
- Not “reinventing the wheel” fallacy.
- The “Dunning-Kruger” effect
Why it is vital to actively participate in this presentation?
This presentation will briefly discuss the most common thinking errors that leaders and managers make. From there, it’ll go onto suggest a number of ways that you can fix them.
Fortunately though, very few people suffer from each and every error there is. So before you take action, it’s important that you identify those errors which specifically apply to you. Because, who after all, wants to waste time doing things they don’t have too.
For the rest of the presentation and afterwards, you will be asked to take up the challenge of generating solutions to your own leadership thinking errors which may or may not include the suggestions discussed previously. By being involved in this way, rather than just being told or shown what to do, you are more likely to implement those solutions. So when you 1) accept that you, like everyone else, makes thinking errors; 2) identify which errors you actually make and; 3) take the appropriate actions to correct them, you are well on the way towards becoming a better leader.