Terrible Leader

byJohaneG

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Updated 5 years ago

Young Entrepreneur has been asked to tell us their thoughts on what makes for a terrible leader and he said the following:

1. Lack of Transparency
Staff can tell when you’re not being completely honest with them. There’s rarely a reason not to be entirely transparent with your team, especially at a young, growing company or institution. Your team will appreciate understanding exactly where the company stands. This will help everyone come together as a team, focused on the problems that need solving for the long-term benefit of the company.

Lack of transparency can result in a lack of trust.—Mitch Gordon

2. Not Listening
Listening to all employees as often as possible is so important to building a loyal and faithful team. Everyone needs to be part of the process and bigger picture. Interacting and listening to your team is something that is too often forgotten by CEOs and other leaders.

It is very vital to be interactive as a leader with a good intent in every institution and listen attentively to other people in order to be productive.

3. Dismissing Ideas Other Than Your Own
I didn’t realize how toxic this behavior was until it was pointed out to me. Your employees should never feel like they’re pitching you in a way that makes you (as the CEO) think you’re spinning the gold. Understanding a good idea, helping to develop it and providing strong praise and credit where due is incredibly important.—Jeff McGregor

4. Ego
The best leaders are ones who accept blame when things go wrong and give credit to their team when things go right. In order to be a true visionary leader, you need to let go of your ego and focus on your people because without them you would be nowhere.—Nick Friedman

It is easy to kill or destroy your business, home, company or any instittution with your ego. Leadership is a great responsibility and you are to carry all the blames of people intsead of pointing fingers.

5. Lack of Empathy
Leaders must understand the problems their team faces, and then begin doing anything to remove barriers to entry so their team can do the best job possible. In my experience, these barriers include a lack of resources, a lack of direction and a lack of culture.—Adam Root

6. Permitting Negative Gossip
Spreading any sort of negative gossip about others sends a signal that it’s not safe to be around that person. Trust is immediately shattered, and people fear that what they are saying may be shared behind their backs. Leaders who either gossip or don’t take measures to eradicate it are harming more than just company morale. They are impeding the flow of honest feedback and communication throughout the organization. —David Hassell

Negative gossip from a irresponsible leader destroyed many families, businesses, organizations and even governments.

7. Poor Communication of Strategy
Some leaders tend to map out ideas in the heads of people but don’t share the process. Then, when the team starts making suggestions you find that he/she already eliminated through thoughtful internal deliberation and they get angry. But no one knows that he/she already done that—so both sides get frustrated. Now there is no life in the company, home and governance etc.

John Maxwell quote;
As a leader, you’re already aware that your ability to positively influence another person is the control component of your leadership. So you understand that influence matters to leaders.

Your life is influence in motion.

Your capacity to transform someone’s life every day is rooted in your choice to make a positive impact even in the most fleeting of moments. When you make it your mission as a leader to value people to them, you are planting the seed for a harvest of positive change.

Some leaders seem only to care about those who are “for” them. We need leaders who care about everyone. We need leaders who make valuing others a priority instead of promise. We need leaders who make others better instead of bitter. Our society needs leaders who take special care to consider the unnoticed follower.

HOW TO BE THE EFFECTIVE LEADER YOUR TEAM NEEDS

Are you leading your employees to the best of your ability?

A leader must:
Keep people in the know. Your goal is to become a transformational leader—the kind of person who motivates and inspires people to perform at levels far beyond anything that they had previously thought possible. Transformational leaders empower others by keeping them “in the know,” making sure they're fully informed on everything that affects their jobs and company. People want and need to feel that they are “insiders,” that they are aware of everything that is going on. There is nothing so demoralizing to a staff member than to be kept in the dark about their work and what is going on in the company.

Regular feedback is very important to your team. One empowering behavior practiced by transformational leaders is regular feedback on performance and results. People need to know how they’re doing so they can improve if performance is below standards and so that they can be proud of their successes.

Set high standards for yourself. What companies and countries and institutions need today are courageous visionary leaders who are committed to creating an exciting future for themselves and others. You have within you the ability to evolve and grow as a leader and to make a real difference in the world around you. And the one thing you can know for sure about yourself is that, no matter what you’ve accomplished up to now, there is far more that you can do. As you practice the behaviors of effective leaders, you will grow more and more toward the realization of your full potential. It’s completely up to you.

As a leader create a good relationship and have regular meetings, communications with your staff and tell them everything that is going on. Invite their comments, questions and concerns. Make everybody feel as if he or she was an insider in the organization.

Look for opportunities to give positive feedback, praise and encouragement. People need praise and encouragement like roses need rain and sunshine. Take very opportunity to make people feel better about themselves and their work.

When you do this, you are in the journey of success in leadership and of the company.

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