Holding back in management? Be yourself and take a risk or two!

So here you are.  You have been promoted into management or maybe you have been in management a long time and maybe you are not getting the 'buzz' out of the job that you were hoping for?

In my last blog I talked about introducing more of yourself into your role as manager bringing benefits of diverse thinking, individualism, new ideas etc to the team you are leading.

For me, over the years I have seen some amazingly diverse and inspirational people be promoted into a management role and somehow they individuality seems to have been morphed into 'management', perhaps their 'colourful personality' has become a touch greyer.

Why?  Well I touched on this in my last blog but maybe those people have perhaps put their foot on their personality brake pedal too heavily in order to comply with others?

You would probably have been promoted because of your skills and how you influence the people around you, so why would you then start to reduce what probably helped to promote you in the first place?

So here is the challenge for you, answer these questions for yourself;

What areas of your personality are you dumbing down in order to comply in your management role?

Think, how were you feeling before you dumbed down those 'colourful' facets of your personality?

How could you use those personality aspects to make yourself a better manager?

Have a good think about the answers to these questions and I challenge you to take a risk and use your full personality to make yourself a fantastic manager!

Wishing you all the best,

John