5 Reasons Why You're NOT Retaining Leaders

It's great and all to get leaders working for you and making a difference...but the real test is retaining those leaders! How to do this? That's the question, for if we check the facts on why you're not retaining leaders, we'll find out the root of the problem and solve it. Make sense? Let's explore.

1. Lacking emotional control is one of the main reasons. Lacking an ability to keep control over your emotions can cause a lot of problems in leadership. It's best to realize that your emotions can get in the way, so figure out how to keep a lot of emotion out of your work.

2. Lacking trust and/or trustworthiness is a problem. Whether you trust other people or people finding you trustworthy - it's important to let trust play into your leadership. Without trust, how can delegation be done? For your constituents, you want to delegate roles and activities, right? And you most certainly want your own leader(s) to delegate certain things to you. Trust is definitely important, and if you don't know how to trust people - you better start.

3. Lacking relationships is not good, when it comes to leadership. If you're a successful leader, then you will say you've made some quality relationships. But, leaders who say that they haven't made relationships along their path - then the trustworthiness of the leader significantly drops. Leadership success needs evidence, so that when you need someone to recommend your leadership, you have the right relationships to do it.

4.  Lack of historical leadership or the evidence of it. Not having a history of leadership drops your success rate. If you have past leadership, but have no evidence (probably because you don't have proof, which can be found in the relationships you should have formed), then people won't believe you have enough experience to maintain your role.

5. Lacking vision is another common reason leaders fail. This is because leaders don't think about what they're working for and how they can improve it so. Therefore, it creates problems wanting to move forward. Without vision, the people perish (Proverbs 29:18). They get lazy! You must have good vision as a leader or share in the vision of the group or others.


It's time to step out of the lazy zone, and time to step into the trustful, visionary leader zone. Believe in the power of leadership and have a purpose about your work - success should arrive shortly after.