Toxic Leadership vs. People Leadership #toxicbosses #toxicworkplace

5 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Marc Haine and Speaker A discuss the common organizational mistake of promoting high‑performing technical experts into people‑leadership roles without providing the necessary training or assessing their leadership competencies. They argue that effective people leadership requires distinct competencies and attributes that not all technical experts possess, and suggest that organizations should keep those lacking these traits in technical or subject‑matter positions rather than forcing them into managerial roles.

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Yeah. Bring in the experts who know about the DNA or the ingredients of people leadership because it's not a set of skills or ingredients that we all have. Certain people have the competencies and attributes that they can lead people. And others, keep them in technical roles. Keep them as a brilliant technical expert or subject matter expert. Don't put them into people leadership.
Yeah. There's so many people who get promoted because they were great performers. And then, they get promoted into leadership roles without the training, without the skill sets because the skill set that got them to be recognized as a technician is not the same skill sets they need to be really effective leaders.