Career Development 

How do smart people showing great promise in the world, sometimes end up with derailed careers?


Research conducted by the Centre for Creative Leadership* General Electrics on and others has identified five broad categories of behaviours with a high risk of derailing your career: 



1. Problems With Interpersonal Relationships  
   
especially an abrasive manner, excessive competitiveness or over-dependence on a particular mentor or boss; 


2. Difficulty Building And Leading A Team
    
poor selection choices – especially cloning; failure to delegate, at all or effectively;

3. Difficulty Changing Or Adapting
    
to a boss with a different style or to a workplace or group with a different culture;
    failing to maintain alignment between own behaviour & changing business strategy or environment


4. Too Narrow A Functional Orientation
parochialism; tunnel vision; blinkered thinking; siloed behaviour;


5. Failure To Meet Business Objectives;
specific performance problems

* Lombardo & Eichinger, 1989; McCall & Lombardo, 1983; Goldsmith, 2003

 

The Corporate Soul offer our clients opportunities to develop their skills set to not only avoid these pitfalls but to make good decisions about work, working relationships, job suitability and career goals & progression.

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