Posts Tagged ‘bad bosses’
7 Signs Your Team Thinks You’re a Bad Boss
So you lead. And you’re doing your best. But the real question is—what does your team think of your leadership? How do you know that you’re not the boss everyone goes home complaining about at the end of the day? I hold three university degrees and am trained as both a lawyer and a pastor.…
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7 Things Bad Leaders Say To Themselves And Their Teams
Nobody sets out to be a bad leader. You didn’t. I didn’t. Yet according to a Gallup study, only 18% of managers have a ‘high degree of talent’ in leading people, which includes the ability to motivate and manage the relationships they have with people around them. So why does the world end up with…
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Why Control Freaks Rarely Lead Large Churches or Organizations
So you’re a bit of a control freak. And you’re a leader. That’s not surprising. People who like control seem to have a natural ability to get into leadership positions. Or sometimes they create positions, start things and build their own organizations. For years, I resisted the control freak label. I wasn’t a control freak.…
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7 Things Bad Leaders Say
Nobody sets out to be a bad leader. You didn’t. I didn’t. Yet according to a recent Gallup study, only 18% of managers have a ‘high degree of talent’ in leading people, which includes the ability to motivate and manage the relationships they have with people around them. So why does the world end up…
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The 10 Best Ways To DeMotivate the People You Work With
Of all the dynamics you handle as a leader, leading people is by far the most challenging. Very few leaders I know actively set out to discourage their team, yet all of us do it—most often unintentionally. There’s an edge that comes with being a leader. You see problems others miss. You also see opportunities.…
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