Sharone Bar-David: Abrasive Leaders
Sharone Bar-David is the author of Trust Your Canary: Every Leader’s Guide to Taming Workplace Incivility* and president at Bar-David Consulting, a company offering solutions for creating a respectful workplace and rehabilitating abrasive leaders.
Key Points
Abrasive leaders often don’t realize how they’re acting, or if they do, they don’t realize the negative affects.
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The three steps of SBD:
State the Expectation - What values or behavior you expect?
Behavior - What are the behaviors that are of concern?
Desired Behavior - How do you want the person to act?
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Resources Mentioned
Abrasive Leader Risk Assessment
Trust Your Canary* by Sharone Bar-David
Abrasive Leaders: Five Mistakes You’ve Made When Managing Them
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Related Episodes
How to Handle a Boss Who’s a Jerk, with Tom Henschel (episode 164)
How to Tame Workplace Incivility, with Sharone Bar-David (episode 210)
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