What Kind of Leader Are You Under Stress?
Leaders make decisions with high stakes, co-ordinate across many teams and functions, seek alignment on the strategy and way forward, navigate complexity, keep stakeholders aligned and coach and guide their teams to achieve goals. This and multiple other expectations makes their job hard, challenging and stressful.
While stress can signal the need to be more thoughtful—validating assumptions, challenging decisions and exploring diverse perspectives—it can also shut down thinking and make leaders behave in unexpected ways. They may use control and authority to solve the problem instead of listening and staying flexible. They may put off decision making or delay it to avoid facing their fears. They may spend long hours at work to expedite progress and reduce pressure. They may act defensively to justify their viewpoint and shut down feedback. They may withdraw and go silent when their brain reduces to co-operate and turns off under stress.
Stress can trigger...
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