The Leadership Factor
What is the last leadership opportunity that you passed up?
When I posed this question to a group of employees who had been singled out for their leadership potential:
- 50% named the title/position they failed to apply for or had not been offered.
- 10%
said they hadn't been offered an internal position but had passed up a
leadership position in an outside organization or a chance to lead
their extracurricular sports.
- 40% said that they hadn't been offered any leadership position and therefore had passed up no opportunities.
I was certain that every one of them had missed a prime leadership
opportunity that they were not even aware of. Ask yourself if your
department, team or organization is the best that it can possibly be? Are you giving your best to make the situation better?If there is one project in your department that is delayed, if your group is challenged to do more work with less budget, or if you have yet to exhaust all of your talent to move the group forward