3.3.1
Self-Reflection, Making Mistakes & Humility
Self-Reflection, Mistakes & Showing Humility
Self-Reflection, Mistakes & Showing Humility
It is important as a leader to be highly reflective, to handle mistakes productively and to be humble with your approach to leading. This humility has to be both authentic and felt.


Making mini-decisions
Making mini-decisions
- Every single day you will make hundreds of mini-decisions.
- It is really important that you compartmentalise these but equally important that you take time to reflect, for a few minutes a day at most, on what you did, why you did it and how you can be better tomorrow.


Making mistakes
Making mistakes
- If you do make mistakes, which you will, do not allow the mistakes to win, to take over, to consume you.
- If you make a mistake then acknowledge it, accept it and move on. You cannot change it and beating yourself up over it will do you little to no good.
- The issue with a mistake is that you are your own worst self-critic. The war with the mistake really is between you, the mistake and your brain.
- Most people won’t care or will be too busy and preoccupied to notice your faux pas.


Humility
Humility
- If you are putting on a sense of humility as a front then you are, by very virtue of your approach, being disingenuous.


It's OK to be wrong
It's OK to be wrong
- Avoid being the person who wants to always be right, whether that be because you are too proud to admit you may be wrong or because you see it as a sign of weakness.
- Adapting to new information, new ideas or a constructive critique is a sign of strength.
- It shows that you are reflective, attentive, capable of listening.
- If you stick resolutely to YOUR plan, you may well find that you lose the respect of your staff or your team. This is the beginning of the end.


Avoid 'know-it-alls'
Avoid 'know-it-alls'
- ‘Know-it alls' often know very little and are usually full of bravado, suffering from the Dunning Kruger effect (when people think their cognitive ability is greater than what it actually is).
- We have all encountered people who are convinced that they know everything and want to convince you that they know everything.
- Be cautious of these people. These people will become a drain on you.
1Introduction
1.1Misconceptions & Key Principles
2Good Leadership Style
2.1Analysing Leadership Style
2.2The Qualities of a Good Leader
3Analysing Yourself
3.1Understanding Yourself
3.2Your Values & Dealing with Others
3.3Personal Qualities: Being Reflective & Humble
4Building a Team
4.1Important Principles for Building a Team
5Decision-Making
5.1The Key to Making Decisions Effectively
6Recap
6.15 Key Principles for Leading
Jump to other topics
1Introduction
1.1Misconceptions & Key Principles
2Good Leadership Style
2.1Analysing Leadership Style
2.2The Qualities of a Good Leader
3Analysing Yourself
3.1Understanding Yourself
3.2Your Values & Dealing with Others
3.3Personal Qualities: Being Reflective & Humble
4Building a Team
4.1Important Principles for Building a Team
5Decision-Making
5.1The Key to Making Decisions Effectively
6Recap
6.15 Key Principles for Leading
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