Our reader ballot at present asks: Which of the next behaviors do you discover to be essentially the most irritating to expertise from a subordinate?
- They’re disrespectful to you 14.18%
- They’re ungrateful for what you do for them 7.09%
- They’re argumentative in regards to the work you ask for 11.02%
- They’re passive-aggressive and don’t do their work 27.82%
- They deceive you 39.89%
Don’t Lie and Do Your Job. The highest frustrations famous are mendacity (40%) and never doing assigned work (39%) both by overtly opposing it or passive-aggressively not complying with directions. The query for you leaders is why are your individuals mendacity to you or not complying with doing the work you’re assigning them? Are they afraid to inform the reality and cope with penalties? Are they avoiding guidelines or requirements that hinder them doing their job effectively? Are they not effectively sufficient skilled or outfitted to do the work? Are your directions unclear? Do they lack the context for why their work is necessary? It’s simple to take a look at your subordinates and spotlight which of their behaviors frustrate you. It’s more durable to take a step again and ask the way you may be doing issues that contribute to them demonstrating these behaviors. Take a second and have an open dialog with them to grasp what’s driving these dynamics. You may be stunned to search out that their habits is being pushed by yours.
– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC
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These outcomes had been initially a SmartPulse ballot in SmartBrief on Leadership which tracks suggestions from greater than 240,000 enterprise leaders. Get smarter on management and join the SmartBrief on Leadership e-newsletter.
