A lot supervisors and managers have no formal training in leadership.
And to be completely honest, a lot of times it shows.
However, being a decent boss requires no rocket science, brain surgery or sorcery. In fact, all you need to do is develop these 17 little habits.
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We’ve heard it a thousand times before.
"People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers."
I’m sure you can recall that one manager from your past who you just couldn’t stand.
And no amount of perks, extra vacation or even salary would be able to compensate that demoralising feeling of having to show up at the office each day.
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People are the number one resource in every company. Very specific and rare skills are becoming more and more important, leading to an amplified need for multidisciplinary and ever-developing teams that can efficiently address a multitude of needs. For a leader, oiling this machine is the number one priority.
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Harvard Business review published (June 2017) an article from Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman where the examination of 360-degree assessment data from more than 60,000 leaders showed that only 13% of the them can both drive business results and create an engaged, fun-to-work team. By further deep-diving into the data set they found that six behaviours were common to these high performers:
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Following our hugely popular blog about bad leadership habits we co-created the list of the biggest leadership mistakes people have experienced. We ran a co-creation arena to figure this out and our participants identified more than 60 different leadership mistakes they have experienced. Out of those sixty the six worst ones are uncovered in this blog.
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If you are a leader, the chances are you like being in control. Do you remember the time, when you were not a leader? Did your boss happened to love being in control as well? Maybe you have spent your time in never ending sales meeting concentrating on meaningless details about next month’s targets or yawned in an internal process training not knowing the purpose of it.
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Effective leadership is all about communication. It is about supporting your staff by answering the right questions in the right way. Better communication is the way to improved employee engagement and better profitability. More communication is not always better communication. There are certain kind of answers you should not give or you risk reducing employee engagement. Here’s a list of four types of answers that make you a bad leader.
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It is ok to admit it. We’ve all been there, at least almost all of us. And the longer you’ve been in the game the greater the changes that you’ve been there more than once. It’s a pain to work under a bad management. But what is it that separates the bad boss from an average or a good one?
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No matter how badly we'd all like it to exist, we know it's a unicorn, and a purple one, I might add. Agile strategy implementation... no such thing. We've all probably learned this during the course of our careers, in any industry, that the strategy process is always painful and exhausting, no exception there.
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