These 18 derailers developed by Dr. Reldan Nadler are insightful for helping high performing leaders identify sabotaging actions that undermine leadership potential and performance.
“1. Smartest Person in the room syndrome- Have to be right all the time, married to your own ideas and are not open or distrusts new ideas
2. Lack of Impulse control – Emotionally reactive, volatile, abrasive and follow urges to an unhealthy extreme
3. Drives others too hard – Micromanage and take over rather than delegate
4. Perfectionism – Sets unrealistic goals, Reject criticism
5. Defensive – Blame others, inflexible and are argumentative
6. Risk averse – Lacks courage to take risks
7. Failure to learn from mistakes – Same kind of mistakes show up
8. Lacks insight into others – Can’t read others emotions or reactions
9. Doesn’t ask for feedback – Miss opportunities to include others for better decisions
10. Self-promotion- Attention seeking, overlook others accomplishments for own recognition
11. Lack of Integrity – “Unhonest” with self and then others, omit and minimize
12. Fail to adapt to cultural differences – Do not change your leadership style appropriately
13. Indirect with others – Do not give the hard feedback or make the difficult decisions about people
14. Approval dependent – Need too much approval before making decisions
15. Eccentricity – Unpredictable and odd in your behavior
16. Mistreats others – Callous, demeaning or discounting to others and their needs
17. Self-Interest – Acts in self-interest instead of the interest of the whole organization or larger group
18. Insular – Disregard of health and welfare of group outside the responsibility of your organization or team”
Derailers referened from Leading with Emotional Intelligence assessment https://www.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/Nadler%20EI%20Self%20Assessments%202014.pdf