As a manager, do you tend to be a Leader or a Bragger? Take a mini-quiz to see if you need to do less bragging and blaming, switching instead to sharing credit with your team for their successes.

1. Employer & Recruiter Tip INSPIRE STAFF BY ACCEPTING BLAME Mark Swartz, Career Coach

2. 1 . WHY ACCEPT MORE BLAME AND SHARE MORE CREDIT?

4. 2. YOUR STYLE: BRAGGER OR LEADER Braggerstake the majority of credit for their team’s accomplishments. They believe this impresses the higher ups. Braggers will also be first to lay the blame for problems on someone other than themselves. It this puts an individual team member – or everyone else but the Bragger – in an unfavourable light, at least the Bragger comes out smelling like roses. Or so the thinking goes Leaders, on the other hand, take less credit and accept more of the blame. From their perspective they are being the bigger person: it shows humility admitting personal responsibility for their team’s errors; and demonstrates self-confidence when highlighting their team’s role in triumphs

5. . 3 HOW TO BE MORE OF A LEADER

7. Providing training and development where needed so that your people can increase their skills and knowledge, which gives them a better chance of rising up the ranks (and risking that one of them may overshadow you one day)

10. Mention your team members by name whenever possible, rather than always calling them “my team”

11. Accept more of the blame when your team fouls up