290: How to Manage Abrasive Leaders, with Sharone Bar-David

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.
• One of the greatest myths is that you can’t do without someone — everyone is replaceable.
• The three steps of SBD:
  1. State the Expectation – What values or behavior you expect?
  2. Behavior – What are the behaviors that are of concern?
  3. Desired Behavior – How do you want the person to act?
• 360 reviews are good for diagnosing a problem with an abrasive leader, but not for solving it.

Resources Mentioned

• Abrasive Leader Risk Assessment
• Trust Your Canary* by Sharone Bar-David
• Abrasive Leaders: Five Mistakes You’ve Made When Managing Them
• Is Your Email Writing Style Putting You at Risk?

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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