Leadership - Mutual attraction
Mutual attraction
Who you might want
When you take over a team you will have a vision of where you want to go.
To achieve this goal you will need a particular skill set of people around you.
Naturally, you will tend to review your own weaknesses and try to fill some of these gaps.
However, your own weaknesses are often reflected in your basic character.
If you decide that you want a great communicator and you are poor in this area yourself it is quite likely that you will only attract those of a similar standard.
Like attracts like
Normally, in magnetism, like repels like and opposites attract. However, when it comes to personal characteristics it is often the opposite.
It is not unusual for individuals to congregate with like types, for example, height, size, age, intellectual level, particular interests, shy persons, brash persons etc.
In similar fashion you will only attract, in the long term, people who are similar to yourself in terms of the values that you hold.
It is quite possible, and useful, to apply a strategy of employing persons ‘unlike’ yourself to fill your skill gaps.
However, you may find that they are not ‘attracted’ to you in the long term and become a short term fix.
If you wish to attract the very best you can be sure that they will be in demand.
Why should they take up the opportunity that you present?
In practice, whatever your level of leadership, you will attract those just at the next level down.
You would not be just assessing an interviewee they will be assessing you.
You will need to sell your own vision and characteristics.