The Overlooked Option for Managing Toxic Leaders

The Overlooked Option for Managing Toxic Leaders

Category : Leadership

Despite the research showing the cultural and financial damage caused by toxic leaders, many organizations still move too slowly to address the behavior. Toxic leadership can show up as micromanaging, hoarding information, taking credit for others’ work, or belittling staff and peers. The result is disengagement, higher turnover, especially among high performers and high-potential employees, lower productivity, and more mental health claims.

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Fortifying Your DEI Initiatives with Data

DEI initiatives have been coming under attack for a while resulting in several well-known organizations abandoning their DEI programs. These firms either don’t understand DEI or were never really committed to it in the first place. To be clear, DEI in its purest form is not about promoting less competent people over more competent people. It’s about making sure every competent person has a chance to be promoted.

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Resolve to Better Manage Your Leadership Resources in 2025

Let 2025 be the year your organization actively engages in managing their most valuable resource – leadership. Organizations currently try to accomplish this through a variety of means, but most have a high potential for bias or overemphasis on outcomes versus leadership. Maybe it’s time to consider a different strategy that minimizes bias and focuses on leadership behaviors.

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Strategies to Retain Your Best Leaders in 2023

Organizations lose good people every year. In this current era of workforce disruptions, the losses can be even worse. The challenge for organizations is to minimize the loss of their best leaders. This has implications not just for the current year but could reverberate for years to come from an interruption of your leadership pipeline. There are two strategies organizations should deploy immediately to minimize the loss of their best leaders in 2023 and beyond, including:

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