Leadership mistake #5: Poor role modeling

As a manager, you are constantly acting as a role model for your team. Your team observes (sometimes unconsciously) your behavior and interprets it. If you regularly sit in the office until 8 p.m. and even write e-mails at 11 p.m., you are setting a very high pace as a role model. In the team, this behavior will lead to your employees finishing work at 6 p.m. with a guilty conscience in the best case. In the worst case, they will take over your working hours.

How to do it better: Make sure that you yourself have a balanced time, self and stress management. In practice, this means that you should allow yourself regular time-outs and a closing time before 7 p.m.