The document discusses 5 common mistakes that business leaders make and provides tips to avoid them. The mistakes include putting the wrong people in jobs where their skills don't match the duties, taking on too much responsibility alone without empowering staff, avoiding holding employees accountable due to fear of confrontation, failing to identify hidden talents among staff, and focusing too much on technical tasks rather than strategic leadership. The tips include doing a skills analysis, empowering staff and letting go of control, making employee feedback about contributions to the organization's mission, identifying hidden talents, and spending more time on strategic leadership tasks.

2. Dangerous Rumor
Being brilliant at one thing,
makes you brilliant at everything!

3. Massive Mistake #1
Wrong people in the wrong jobs
When skills don’t match job duties, work is harder, more
mistakes get made, things take longer and profits are reduced.

4. You can’t always see the all the skills
& abilities your staff really has
.

5. TIP: Do a detailed innate skills analysis

6. Massive Mistake #2
Taking on full responsibility
for success all by yourself
It’s tempting because
you’re so capable and you
know what you want.

7. But you end up handling too much of
the work, making it hard to scale

8. TIP:
Empower your staff. Let go of the reins.

9. Massive Mistake #3
Not Holding Employees
Accountable Due to Fear

10. Avoiding the conversation
just makes things worse

11. TIP:
Focus feedback on their contribution
(or lack thereof)
to the organization’s vision & mission

12. Massive Mistake #4
Not Seeing the
Hidden Gold on Your Team

13. Opportunities to leverage those
skills go undiscovered

14. TIP: Identify hidden talents and
redistribute the work more profitably

15. Massive Mistake #5
Being the Technician, Not the CEO Boss

16. It’s easier, but costly

17. TIP: Set your team up to S.O.A.R.
and spend more time with prospects,
partners and customers.

18. This is just the tip of the iceberg, but
did you see yourself here at all?

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20. About the author
Loretta Love Huff
Known and appreciated by thousands of engaged and sometimes
exhausted executives and entrepreneurs as The Dream Leader for
Business™, Loretta “helps people and teams EXCEED their dreams™!
Loretta guides her clients to unleash their inner leader and influence
with integrity. She is a Phoenix Business Journal “Top Women in
Business” honoree.
She has coached or trained leaders at Hewlett-Packard, Sprint,
Henkel/Dial, Visa, Schwab, KPMG, Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch
PricewaterhouseCoopers and hundreds of small businesses. She has
delivered keynotes and breakout sessions at national conferences.
Loretta has appeared on the local Fox10 Morning News, radio shows
across the country and been featured in the New York Times, the Wall
Street Journal, Black Enterprise, The Phoenix Business Journal,
Arizona Woman and Working Mother magazine.
She is the author of two books, Leadership without Limit and 6 Keys for
Dissolving Disputes. www.EmeraldHarvest.com

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