Why Do Leaders Derail

Leadership derailment largely depends upon two factors:

1) the perceptions of others about your performance which includes your relationship with them, and

2) your contributions or results produced for the good of the organization

The first of the two is the most critical in terms of leadership derailment because a leader may have produced outstanding results, but if he/she has damaged relationships along the way, or has operated with a lack of integrity, derailment may be inevitable.

Some of the universal factors of leadership derailment are:

- Erosion or betrayal of trust

- Failure to deliver and be accountable

- Failure to adapt

- Lack of courage and decisiveness

- Creating or endorsing a dysfunctional work environment

- Failure to develop people and organization

- Lacks forward-looking and inspirational approach

- Lack of objectivity and broad-mindedness

Learn how to manage the risk factors that lead to derailment by attending multiple webinars hosted by CDR Assessment Group Inc. For more information or to schedule a webinar visit: http://www.cdrassessmentgroup.com/ContactUs.php

The 7 common mistakes employers make when recruiting and hiring

The following are 7 mistakes employers are making when looking to recruit and hire both internally and externally:

1. Relying too heavily on rigid educational and experiential criteria - don't be so black and white!

• HR departments are known for screening out top candidates who do not meet "exact requirements" to the letter. For example, one of our clients has an HR Director who is a stickler. If "7 years" is required for a given job and a strong candidate has merely 5 years 3 months, they are screened out without a thought.
• Or, maybe your firm is part of the exclusive club screening and only taking MBAs from Wharton or Harvard? Perhaps an MBA graduate from Arizona State University, University of Texas, or even Wheaton university may be the best candidate. Open your horizons.

2. Making decisions based primarily on interviews.

• Most socially skilled people can interview well in their sleep. Those who interview best often perform the worst. Conversely, many who stumble on interviews, or who lack polish or visible confidence, may be superstars that just need to be identified and supported a bit to shine.

3. Allowing management's personal bias and need to surround themselves with clones, replicas or 'feel good' types impact selection. Decision makers need to step out of their current comfort zones or restrictive paradigm and image of what a successful candidate looks or acts like. Exceptional talent is diverse, and yes, different.

• I've had a Sr. VP tell me, yes I can understand that this is undoubtedly the best fit candidate, but he just doesn't fit the executive mold here. What??? You can sign him up at Macy's with a wardrobe coahch: we can teach etiquette: we cannot re-hardwire inherent capability.

4. Interviewing or wasting time on non-fit candidates.

5. Conducting cursory reference and background checks.

6. Listening to the advice of head hunters (i.e. External recruiters)

• They can get you people to consider; but then you have to identify the talent. Don't rely heavily on recommendations made by recruiting firms. Many are like car salesmen, Albeit smoother in their communication skills. They sell and earn a commission. We've seen many hiring disasters because of following the advice of recruiters.
• It should be no surprise that recruiters resent what we do for obvious reasons. Many of the candidates they try to push on our clients don't make it in the door for an interview.

7. Using your current (leadership promotional) and succession processes that rely too heavily on ticket punching, political savvy, technical know-how and superficial performance results.

Visit our website to read more on how to prevent these costly mistakes.

www.cdrassessmentgroup.com

The Cynic's Tightrope: Healthy Skepticism vs. Harmful Mistrust

Do you consider yourself to be a realist or even a pessimist who is compelled to dig deep with lots of questions? Are you known for your sarcasm? Are you known for having an inquiring or investigative mind and for being one who is determined to unravel the mystery others fail to see? Do you prefer to shoot down ideas early to avoid wasting time because you know they won’t work? Are you proud of being a tough critic?

If you answered yes to two or more of the above, this “Cynics” webinar is a must attend for you.

Leaders and professionals who have “Cynic” Risk Factor tendencies are often people who are analytically driven and who enjoy solving puzzles and holes in logic. Unfortunately, Cynics tend to stifle or kill innovation, mistrust others, and can alienate others due to their negative assumptions and comments. Sometimes Cynics see themselves as humorous; the problem is that their colleagues may fail to see the humor and are often offended or demotivated by what they interpret as caustic remarks.

You will learn:

• The line between healthy skepticism and harmful mistrust
• The impact Cynics have on performance
• Ways that behaviors manifest for Cynics
• Tactics on how to build trust and improve relationships
• Ways to neutralize your Cynic tendencies
• Action plan ideas for development

To schedule your webinar session or to find out more on future webinars, please visit us as www.cdrassessmentgroup.com

CDR 3-D Assessment Suite: Going beyond the 360⁰ Leader Scan

For those of you who have been looking for the “get rich quick” scheme of becoming a successful leader, I’m afraid you will never find the answer. But, there are ways out there to determine your performance characteristics and leadership skills. For most people, the 360⁰ Leader Scan is a great way to understand how ones performance, behaviors, and communication affect others. This approach is used by nearly every Leadership and Executive coaching company out there.

CDR Assessment Group has developed a program that looks more in-depth and determines the WHY factor that the 360⁰ does not explain. The CDR 3-Dimensional Assessment Suite is a revolutionary approach that provides unique insight into a leader’s key strengths and development needs by looking at a character assessment, risk factors & derailers, and drivers & rewards.

The reasons why the CDR 3-D Suite is more desirable?

• Clients report shaving 1.5 to 2 years off of the talent development cycle time
• No other tool comes close to specifically identifying individual strengths, risks, and motivations
• Results are straight forward, accurate, and hard hitting with no sugar coating
• Results measure bottom line benefits, and
• There is no reason to EVER re-test because results can be used for multiple consulting applications

Although we do not claim to have the answer to becoming the PERFECT leader, our 3-Dimensional approach is as close as anything comes to predicting future performance.

For more information on the CDR 3-Dimensional Assessment Suite or 360⁰ Leader Scan visit our website at http://cdrassessmentgroup.com/

Dont Worry-Be Decisive: How worrying can affect productivity in the workplace

Do you ever over-think, worry, or delay decisions? Well, no more need to fret as Nancy Parsons and Kim Brinkmeyer Ph.D., of CDR Assessment Group, continue their “Risk Factors” webinar by discussing “Worriers”.

This webinar goes into detail on the following topics:
· Why worriers worry
· How worriers can derail their own success
· The cost of worrying
· The Top 10 tactics to fret no more
· Building your decision making skills, and
· Action plans for worriers

The presentation teaches listeners to understand what causes them to worry and how to stop the vicious cycle of worrying. By the end of the discussion, listeners have insight and tactics on how to overcome the “risk” of worrying, and become more productive in the workplace.

For more information on the “Worriers” webinar, or dates of future webinars, visit us at http://www.cdrassessmentgroup.com/ or call 918-488-0722.

Webinar Title: How Inherent Risk Factors Interfere with Your Success

Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Time: 12:00 noon Eastern Time Webinar Duration: 90 minutes

Fee: $199

Introductory Session Description:

Did you know that everyone has inherent “Risk Factors”, or ineffective coping strategies, that can impede performance success or damage relationships? The fact is that Risk Factors are part of your inherent behavior tendencies and responses. Risk Factors are likely to show more when you are stressed, facing conflict, adversity, or once the honeymoon is over on the job.

This webinar is an introduction to the eleven inherent Risk Factors that can undermine performance and throw, even the most promising career, off track. The CDR Risk Factors include: PLEASER, CYNIC, EGOTIST, WORRIER, FALSE ADVOCATE, UPSTAGER, HYPER-MOODY, ECCENTRIC, RULE BREAKER, PERFECTIONIST and DETACHED.

What you will learn:

• How to spot Risk Factors in yourself and others


• The ways Risk Factors impact you and others


• Learn how Risk Factors can derail performance


• Quiz – making sure you can identify all eleven Risk Factors


• Ways to mitigate or neutralize your own Risk Factors


• Ideas for building effective, non-sugar-coated, action plans for development
  

email: cdrinfo@cdrassessmentgroup.com or call 918-488-0722 for enrollment information.

CDR Announces Webinars to Help You Manage Your "Risk Factors"

CDR has announced the launch of a series of twelve hard hitting and relevant Webinars to help leaders and professionals identify and manage their own inherent Risk Factors more productively.

The fact is that everyone has inherent “Risk Factors”, or ineffective coping strategies, that can impede performance, damage relationships, or cause even the most promising career to go off track. For the first time, leaders and professionals can do something about their own Risk Factors by participating in these live Webinars from the privacy of their own office.

For more information, go to www.cdrassessmentgroup.com or email cdrinfo@cdrassessmentgroup.com Feel free to call 918-488-0722.