Leaders face many challenges and it is those which carve out a leader of him or her. But not all overcome these challenges, you need leadership qualities and more than that should use them effectively to tackle the challenges and grow. Never run away from them.
Leaders face challenges like adapting to change, managing diversity and a lot more but we have very common ones but never or almost taught such as the ' Advocating sheep'.
Advocating sheep is a leadership dilemma where by one or a few number of subordinates advocate for you, and seems almost like they will die for you. Maybe because of your charisma or something that made them to follow you madly, but the problem is when these advocating followers are the trouble. A dilemma arises, what could you possibly do to them, you have tried everything, the solution that lies in front of you is to fire them. The only thing they do is singing praise for you. The whole office knows this, "If this is what will happen to a die hard follower than what about us" they might think, leading to stress and demotivation. Moreover some leaders will find it the hardest to look at a co worker who sees them maybe like God and say you're fired.
Advocating sheep is a leadership dilemma where by one or a few number of subordinates advocate for you, and seems almost like they will die for you. Maybe because of your charisma or something that made them to follow you madly, but the problem is when these advocating followers are the trouble. A dilemma arises, what could you possibly do to them, you have tried everything, the solution that lies in front of you is to fire them. The only thing they do is singing praise for you. The whole office knows this, "If this is what will happen to a die hard follower than what about us" they might think, leading to stress and demotivation. Moreover some leaders will find it the hardest to look at a co worker who sees them maybe like God and say you're fired.