Are You Sabotaging Your Mission?

ARE YOU SABOTAGING YOUR MISSION?The Hidden Leadership Patterns Behind Burnout, Low Performance, and Organizational Dysfunction What if the same trait driving your success is also quietly sabotaging your leadership? In this episode of The Nonprofit Exchange, Hugh Ballou welcomes Dr. Philip Agrios, self-sabotage expert, best-selling author, international speaker, and creator of The T-NOW Method™, for a revealing conversation about the hidden patterns that can undermine even highly successful nonprofit leaders. Dr. Agrios explains that self-sabotage isn't necessarily a flaw that needs to be fixed. A trait that serves a leader well can operate in two very different ways—Growth or Protection. When that trait shifts into Protection, leaders may over-give until they burn out, avoid difficult decisions, take on responsibilities that belong to others, withdraw from necessary conversations, or struggle to follow through on important priorities. The consequences don't stop with the leader. Repeated leadership behaviors influence how team members respond, how decisions get made, how accountability functions, and ultimately how the organization's culture develops. What begins as an internal leadership pattern can eventually become an organizational pattern. Hugh and Dr. Agrios explore how leaders can recognize self-sabotage as it happens, understand the difference between Protection and Growth, and use The T-NOW Method™ to interrupt the pattern and choose a more productive response. This conversation offers nonprofit executives, board members, founders, and other mission-driven leaders a different way to think about burnout, performance, delegation, accountability, and organizational culture. Key takeaway: What begins as self-sabotage within the leader can eventually become dysfunction throughout the organization. Change the leader's pattern, and you can change the organization's performance. Learn more about Dr. Philip Agrios and The T-NOW Method™ at www.TheTNOWMethod.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices