6 Habits Great Leaders Avoid, Part 2
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As a leader, you know your leadership potential will never outperform your daily habits. Healthy habits will propel you forward. Unhealthy habits will hold you back. Today, we're talking about part two of the six habits great leaders avoid. Hey, welcome back to another episode of the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast, where my goal is to help you become a leader that other people love to follow. If you're new to our leadership community, we drop a brand new episode on the first Thursday of every month. I also want to encourage you to get the leader guide. I promise you there's going to be valuable information helpful for you and good content to go over with your team. If you're not receiving it, go to life.church slash leadership podcast.
You'll get a detailed summary designed to help you, your team, additional content. I promise you it's helpful. I'm also very excited that I've got a new book coming. releasing on February the 18th. It is called The Benefit of Doubt, How Confronting Your Deepest Questions Can Lead to a Richer Faith. If you'd like to get a copy of this early, I'm actually gonna tell you how you could potentially get one at the end of this episode, but I wanna honor your time, so let's get to work on new content. What do we know? To succeed in your leadership, You don't want to just develop the right habits. You also need to eliminate the wrong habits, right? We're talking about the six habits that great leaders avoid. In the last month's episode, we talked about the first three. We are going to avoid and stop the habit of number one, doing too much. Number two, the habit of avoiding conflict. Number three, we're going to avoid the habit of doing what you've always done. Today, we're gonna talk about four, five, and six.
I'll tell you what they are, then we'll dive into each one of them. Number four, if you have this habit, you're gonna quit the habit of micromanaging. Number five, you're gonna quit the habit of hiding in leadership. And number six, you're gonna quit the habit of hesitation. The habit of micromanaging, the habit of hiding, and the habit of hesitation. Now, the good news is, if you have bad leadership habits, Breaking free from these habits is not just possible, but it is game changing. So we're going to stop doing what's holding you back, and we're going to create the right habits to propel you forward. So let's start, first of all, with one of the most common bad habits. You see it in leaders across the board, and that is the bad habit of micromanaging. If you've never worked for a micromanager, you should just thank God in heaven right now. If you've never worked under an overly controlling leader, you're very fortunate because this is a very, very common bad habit in leaders. What happens?
The overly controlling leader eventually becomes the greatest limiting force to organizational progress. Because over time, a micromanager really does three things. You're going to see a micromanager destroy trust, limit leadership development, and increase turnover. Every single time you see a micromanager, those three things happen. They destroy trust. They limit leadership development and they increase turnover. Let's start with the first problem. Micromanagers, unfortunately, tragically destroy trust. And you probably know it because if you've worked for an overly controlling leader, how'd you feel? If the leader was always breathing down your neck, you felt devalued, demoralized, and disempowered. And here's the problem.
If you don't feel trusted, you'll never consistently bring your best. And that's what happens to our team members when we don't trust, believe in them, and empower them. Because an overly controlling leader also limits leadership development. Since the boss is always hovering, the team members are often hesitant to take risks. They might have an idea, but they're like afraid, if I share this idea, I might get criticized. They wanna take initiative, but they don't take initiative because they don't wanna fail. They wanna be looked down on. And that's why the micromanager will also eventually increase employee turnover. If you will not let good leaders lead, good leaders won't stay. Let me say it again.
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