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suffering relationships and less creativity and
productivity are starting to motivate employers
and employees to right the ship.
14. Being Distracted By Your Phone
With our phones always in hand, they tend
to dictate our attention. While unintentional,
conversations are being broken up moment
by moment. Put the phone down and step
away. Leave it on your desk, put it on silent
and set your notifications so that very few
get through. As a professional, you want to
leave others around you feeling connected
in conversations with you; being distracted is
being detached.
15. Not Delegating Tasks
A lack of delegation is a common bad habit in
most leaders. It is due to a lack of confidence
in their employees or a fear of giving up too
much control. All leaders must understand
that delegation is critical for their team to
12. Correlating Busyness With Success mature—it is like a gym for good decision-
We’ve gotten into a bad habit of thinking that making. Supporting them through good and/
being “busy” equals success. Busyness is a or bad decisions builds their confidence and
measure of activity and time management, or transforms everyone into better leaders.
perhaps the lack thereof. Whenever someone
tells me they are “so busy,” I can’t help but 16. Omitting Reflection From Team
Meetings
wonder why their time is managing them. Why
are they saying “yes” to everything? What Omitting reflection from team meetings is a
should they be saying “no” to instead? Ask: bad habit for many well-meaning managers.
“What is my busyness really serving? And why Today, reflection has only become more
am I allowing it to overwhelm me?” important as the pace of business continues
to increase. Reflection captures shared
13. Avoiding Face-To-Face Communication learning and often saves future time and
Avoiding in-person, face-to-face time is a money. Add a reflection question to your
very bad habit that we have fallen into in the individual and team meeting agendas: Where
workplace. While working remotely is not all should we be proud? What was our learning?
bad, the pendulum has swung too far. It’s How can we be even better?
so easy to stay home rather than go into the
office. But the lack of effective communication, www.forbes.com
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