The Best Leadership Lessons from the Worst Bosses

The Best Leadership Lessons from the Worst Bosses

57mBeginner2023-04-18

Authors

Scott Mautz

Scott Mautz

Speaker, Author of Leading from the Middle, IU Faculty Exec. Ed.

Course details

If you haven’t had a terrible boss before, odds are, eventually you will. While it’s tempting to dismiss your time with a bad boss and never look back on it again, some of the most powerful lessons you can learn about leadership lie in the missteps, errors, and bad behaviors of your worst bosses. In this course, join award-winning speaker and best-selling author Scott Mautz to discover the most common mistakes that not-so-great bosses often make, and how you can learn from them to become a better leader. Explore a wide variety of social impressions you don’t want to make as a boss, as well as key considerations about people, productivity, and peak performance. Along the way, Scott shows you how to identify and avoid business-critical management mistakes. Get ready to take the best from the worst and grow from your most challenging experiences. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with new skills and strategies that you can apply in any leadership role.

Skills covered

Management SkillsLeadership SkillsLimited SeriesLeadership and Management

Concepts

Introduction

  • Learn what not to do from the worst bosses

People Lessons

  • Make time for your employees, not excuses
  • Feedback isn't a chore it's something to champion
  • Treat communication like a strategy, not an afterthought
  • Know that even tiny lapses in integrity can destroy trust

Productivity Lessons

  • Micromanagement crushes souls, not goals
  • Indecision paralyzes an organization
  • Creating rework and waste drains meaning
  • Inconsistency creates unhelpful uncertainty

Peak Performance Lessons

  • A lack of transparency fosters a lack of commitment
  • Avoiding conflict helps nobody
  • Unclear expectations are unacceptable
  • Unaddressed underperformers are culture killers

Conclusion

  • Be great by not being the worst
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