Leadership without goals
Goals give team members direction and purpose and every leader has this as a key role to perform. If you happen to be in the position of a class captain or a head prefect and you set out to lead your team without setting shared goals, you would perform woefully eventually. It is however imperative to set goals on the commencement of your leadership endeavour so that your outcome can be outstanding.
Leadership with the aid of shortcuts
It is often said that short cuts, inadvertently cuts one down. If you get hasty to solve the problems of your colleagues under your leadership, you might ameliorate the condition temporarily but it will raise its ugly head in no distant time, so always seek to get a lasting solution, although this might often take longest than quick fixes.
Leadership mixed with poor communication
Poor communication is a deadly pitfall in any leadership endeavour; this must be avoided in every form by a leader. Every leader must make sure to communicate succinctly as possible. Every of your team members must have a good understanding of what the team is set to achieve per time. This will not only help you to succeed, it will keep your team going in the face of difficulty.
Leadership devoid of Quality Learning
Mistakes are usually unavoidable at every given point in time but it behoves every team and it constituting leaders to learn from every mistake and avoid its repetition. It is seemingly unwise to continue making the same mistake over and again without correcting it. Every leader must make effort to learn, unlearn and relearn valuable lessons at all times.
Leadership without proper praise and reward
Most leaders often take the glory for collective goals. That’s what some football team’s captain do when they grant interviews and boast that their leadership skills made them successful when they could have deflected the praises to the team, and considered rewarding the extraordinary team members. If you don’t avoid this in its littlest form, it will jeopardise the unity of your team.
Every leader must avoid the above pitfalls and learn to build a formidable team that would achieve great goals and that’s what you as a student leader should also do.
