Bullies in the Manager's Office

Bullies can be both managers and employees, but whereever they apear in our workplace, they have a negative impact on the workforce.  Bullies are detrimental to the work environment.  They use intimidation to accomplish the work. 

Business owners need to be dealt with and provided the resources to shift to a collaborative leader or asked to leave.

Bullies don’t just exist on the playground. They also sit in the manager’s chair or the CEO’s office. Bully leadership is sharp, authoritative, angry, and feels uncomfortable to those in contact with it. Bully leaders believe that they are rallying the troops, getting everyone on board. But that is not what happens. The bully leader barks out orders, threatens consequences and uses strong, harsh statements to “motivate” people to do what the leader wants.

 The “motivation” that results is limited. And that is what the "Bully Leader" doesn't realize. Bully Leaders are scary for people so they do what they need to do but there is a sacrifice. The sacrifice occurs in the work performed. People do what needs to be done and that is all. They don't go above and beyond. They don't share their knowledge and ideas with the leader. The Bully Leader wants and needs to be the one with the great ideas. They don't want to share the limelight.