Leaders, Are You Contributing to Employee Entitlement?
While it’s easy to blame employees for their attitudes and behaviors, this doesn’t address the issues that are created as a result of entitlement being allowed to continue.
While it’s easy to blame employees for their attitudes and behaviors, this doesn’t address the issues that are created as a result of entitlement being allowed to continue.
A leadership crisis has been created over the last decade because we’ve been brainwashed into believing that leaders have to take care of employees the same way helicopter and snowplow parents take care of their children. Don’t let them struggle, feel or strive for mastery.
Leaders don’t know how to lead people and are creating a leadership crisis by not providing development for current and next-gen leaders. Where are your leaders of tomorrow coming from if you aren’t getting them ready today?
Much of what we read about employee motivation suggests that this is the job of leaders and managers as though employees are incapable of doing so themselves.
It seems authority has become a dirty word in organizations. Through our experience working with leaders in our development programs and coaching, it is clear that leaders today are not feeling empowered to exercise authority.
Most leaders think they can just show up and lead. With the current orientation to developing leaders – which is basically providing little to no development – it’s no surprise.
Leading with Authority is based on practices of Conscious and Authentic leadership. These two models for leading emerged on the heels of the emotional intelligence movement of the last three decades.
We hear this again and again from our clients. They tell us how great they are as leaders, how they know what they are doing and that they are perfect in performing their roles.
Once the pinnacle of power in an organization, the trend over the past 10 years has been to reduce leaders to “Mr. & Ms. Nice Guy/Girl.”
While there are those organizations, traditional and entrepreneurial, that recognize leaders need to be developed and systems need to be in place to support high performance leadership, there are just as many who don’t.
Research shows that most leaders have been in the role for, on average, almost a decade before being trained on how to manage people.
Leadership, like parenting, is one of the few professions that requires little to no training or experience prior to being placed in or promoted into the role.