Leadership Recruitment & Selection: Talent Management, HR Planning, & Management Development
People Management Consultants
Suppose you're fortunate enough to have a pool of managers and individual contributors who look like excellent candidates for key leadership roles. They make sure their good points are evident, but some of them may have feet of clay.
Moravec and Associates People Management Consultants have developed a list of the most frequent vulnerabilities of leadership candidates:
- Coddling direct reports instead of holding them accountable to a balanced scorecard
- Protecting themselves from errors by providing vague direction instead of making clear decisions and owning results
- Stifling innovation by promoting harmony and the comfort zone at the expense of constructive contention and learning
- Staying above the fray - to be personally invulnerable - and not trusting direct reports to challenge management thinking
- Having a short-term business focus for their own careers instead of linking today's actions with tomorrow's business or agency goals
Using this list in a small-group assessment process can help you avoid the trap of overvaluing some candidates and undervaluing others.
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