{"id":4781,"date":"2023-05-23T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tpcleadership.com\/benelux-fr\/uncategorized\/my-top-5-leadership-lessons-christian-scholtes\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:07:08","slug":"my-top-5-leadership-lessons-christian-scholtes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tpcleadership.com\/benelux-fr\/developpement-des-leaders\/my-top-5-leadership-lessons-christian-scholtes\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top 5 Leadership Lessons – Christian Scholtes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this series we have been talking to some of our Partners who have been sharing their Top 5 Leadership Lessons. In this blog, Christian Scholtes<\/a>, Chair of TPC Leadership and Managing Partner of our Romanian office shares his.<\/p>\n

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    Regulate your Ego<\/span><\/h2>\n

    Leadership increases inherently the exposure to complexity and of tension, while the amount of genuine, straightforward feedback is likely to decrease. As such, it creates ideal conditions for your defence mechanisms to get activated, and for you to take yourself all too seriously. Hence why it is crucial to undergo some personal development processes, which will allow you to become aware of your deeply-rooted assumptions and scripts, and to de-structure them, for a cleaner, less polluted, interaction with your ever changing environment.<\/li>\n

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    Be Alive\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

    What\u2019s bothering teams is not a leader who is necessarily a tad too demanding, or too friendly, but one who is rather absent, a foggy presence, a \u2018forwarding emails\u2019 kind of an individual. It\u2019s a key part of your role as a leader to have a lively presence, to bring energy into the room, to laugh and to suffer with your team. Your people need to know that you are a three-dimensional human being, who enjoys interacting openly with other complex, difficult, lovely human beings.<\/li>\n

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    Normalise Debate\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

    If we keep being all too well-behaved during meetings, we\u2019re only going to share what we\u2019re really thinking after the meeting. Hence why it\u2019s important for you as a leader to normalise the presence of debate and disagreement, to embed it structurally in the flow of key decision-making meetings. Your people are usually well connected to the day-to-day realities of the organisation \u2013 what you have to do is to create premises for their diverse opinions to be openly expressed. Chances are, the outcome of the meeting will be a wiser and richer one in the end \u2013 a decision that accepts that the truth is usually a multifaceted, complex construct.<\/li>\n

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    Dance with Ambiguity<\/span><\/h2>\n

    Given that we\u2019re part of a highly turbulent world, where traditional patterns are disrupted and existing habits become the new limitation, you may as well accept that pretty much nobody knows what\u2019s the right way forward (even though some may pretend so). Not being able to define even what the problem actually is, is by itself highly liberating \u2013 you might as well enjoy the agile approach of testing hypotheses in open-ended experimentation (something you used to be really good at, when you were still a child).<\/li>\n

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    Avoid Compromises<\/span><\/h2>\n

    It may be tempting and it even sounds reasonable to accept the half-measure. The candidate who isn\u2019t quite there in terms of attitude, but has some impressive technical skills in their CV. The decision that doesn\u2019t address the root cause, but brings some really nice cosmetics to the situation. The budget that\u2019s neither here nor there, which doesn\u2019t actually cover the needed resources, while still pretending to do so. It\u2019s highly likely that the cost of the longer-term problem will by far exceed the momentary relief. As such, by accepting compromises, you\u2019re only reinforcing the system\u2019s dysfunctions which invited you to do the compromise.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Have a leadership challenge? Feel free to contact us<\/a>, to see how we can support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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