Friday, 18 December 2009

Damage caused by leadership insecurity or ego?

A friend of mine just popped round and shared how low she feels about her current work situation.  A vivacious, talented individual, she is totally flat, demorallised and lacking in confidence and all down to how she is being  managed! 

When, you ask a few more questions, it is clear that she receives no feedback or recognition and as a home worker is called into an office 120 miles away to a weekly team meeting with no agenda apparently on a whim.  It is doing nothing for her motivation or engagement - but more interestingly to me, what is causing the manager's behaviour? 

How can it make sense to call people to an unstructured weekly meeting wiping out their day through travel without a clear purpose?  Is it power, ego or insecurity?  So hard to say but so bad for business...

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