Grow Your Spine & Manage Abrasive Leadership Behavior

Download or read book Grow Your Spine & Manage Abrasive Leadership Behavior written by Laura Crawshaw and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing abrasive leadership behavior is no easy task, and doing it ineptly or failing to do altogether can have disastrous consequences for your organization, your employees, and you. Grow Your Spine & Manage Abrasive Leadership Behavior: A Guide for Those Who Manage Bosses Who Bully shows managers how to fearlessly manage bosses who behave badly, ensuring a psychologically safe workplace.What does it take to successfully manage bosses who bully? It takes courageous intervention paired with psychological insight, otherwise known as Management Backbone. This concise, highly practical guide shows how to grow your Management Backbone, presenting the concepts (vertebrae) and step-by-step guidance on how to stop the suffering caused by abrasive leadership behavior. An internationally renowned expert on bosses who bully, Dr. Laura Crawshaw addresses these questions and more: ? How do I determine if a leader's interpersonal conduct is unacceptable? ? What if I haven't personally observed the bad behavior people are complaining about? ? What's the best way to tell a bullying boss that their abrasive behavior must stop? ? What if they deny their leadership style is abrasive? ? What if they get defensive and aggressive with me? ? How do I motivate an abrasive leader to change, and is change even possible? Crawshaw challenges the belief that managers fail to manage the unacceptable conduct of bosses who bully because they're heartless and care nothing about suffering employees. The reality? Most managers of abrasive leaders aren't heartless: they're spineless - they're afraid to intervene. They're afraid of being harmed by or doing harm to their technically competent but interpersonally incompetent abrasive leaders and sink into paralysis, feeling helpless and hopeless. Known as the Boss Whisperer® and founder of The Boss Whispering Institute, Crawshaw's definitive guide describes the psychological forces that make conduct intervention so challenging and shows how to calmly and confidently motivate these individuals to permanently abandon their destructive styles. This book is for managers at all levels, as well as human resource professionals, boards of directors, professional licensing boards, and workplace bullying and psychological safety activists.