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Bad Boss

Release Date: 2020/10/01
ISBN: 9780730383970
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In a tough or toxic work environment, are you brave enough to challenge your own thinking and shift your own perspective to make relationships work? 

Bad Boss is for anyone who is in — or who is keen to avoid — a negative workplace environment characterised by ineffective leadership. Believe it or not, bad bosses are not bad people, and there are concrete steps you can take to improve your situation.

Inside, author Michelle Gibbings shares wisdom drawn from decades in corporate leadership. It takes teamwork at every level to create an environment where everyone can flourish. If you dare to examine your own role in your current situation and take action today, you stand to gain better relationships and greater career satisfaction.

Challenge the standard leadership practices and transform a tough situation to the benefit of all. Learn how to:

  • determine where the problem really lies
  • identify your role in the bad boss situation
  • strategise your best option forward
  • take action using concrete tools
  • reflect and monitor progress for long-term gain.

Bad Boss will take the edge off your stressful work environment and provide you with key actionable steps to turn things around.

 

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the author
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Preface
    1. Confessions of a bad boss
    2. Why this book and why now
    3. How to use this book
  5. Introduction
    1. The leadership deficit
    2. Good leadership matters to all of us
    3. Eight myths of the modern workplace
    4. Four steps to freedom and fulfilment
    5. The leadership pressure chamber
  6. PART I What to do if you …: work for one
    1. 1 ASSESS : your position
    2. Fact versus fiction
    3. Own your impact
    4. Put yourself in their shoes
    5. Challenge yourself
    6. Assess your boss's style
    7. Pre-match check
    8. 2 STRATEGISE : your options
    9. Stop whingeing, start advancing
    10. You go first
    11. Check your position
    12. Invest in the boss bank
    13. Know your currency
    14. Increasing the value
    15. Pick your power play
    16. Set boundaries to deal with pester power
    17. Reshape your role
    18. Seek connections
    19. 3 ACT : with intent
    20. Flip the boss lens
    21. A nudge in the right direction
    22. Negotiate your position
    23. Aim for the 3 Cs
    24. Break the drama binge
    25. 4 REFLECT : on progress
    26. Reflect, learn and grow
    27. A progress stocktake
    28. Know when to cash out
    29. Watch for fallout
    30. Sense check your reality
  7. PART II What to do if you …: wmanage one
    1. 5 ASSESS : the situation
    2. Check yourself
    3. Open your eyes
    4. Sense check weak signals
    5. Informal sources
    6. Formal sources
    7. Uncover the root cause
    8. Sanity check
    9. Culture doesn't fit
    10. They're out of their depth
    11. 6 STRATEGISE : the path forward
    12. Reality bites
    13. What to do if it's YOU
    14. What to do if it's THEM
    15. What to do if it's the ENVIRONMENT
    16. 7 ACT : with purpose
    17. Enter the arena
    18. Get ready to be real
    19. Ready the field for progress
    20. 8 REFLECT : on outcomes
    21. Should they stay or go?
    22. Double check the data
    23. Is enough enough?
    24. It's decision time
    25. Lessons learned
    26. Your leadership legacy
  8. PART III What to do if you …: are one
    1. 9 ASSESS : where you're at
    2. Time to open your eyes
    3. Pressure to perform
    4. Green, yellow or red?
    5. How did you score?
    6. 10 STRATEGISE : your development
    7. Creating your leadership playbook
    8. Indicator 1: Open your heart and mind to awareness
    9. Indicator 2: Close the authenticity gap
    10. Indicator 3: Accept your mission
    11. Indicator 4: Develop a feast mindset
    12. Indicator 5: Break your power addiction
    13. Indicator 6: Build courageous and healthy relationships
    14. Indicator 7: Establish team norms and purpose
    15. 11 ACT : with integrity
    16. Build good habits
    17. Avoid the stereotypes
    18. Check your expectations
    19. Bring out their best
    20. Let them be them
    21. Leadership is facilitation
    22. Find time for you
    23. 12 REFLECT : on growth
    24. Mirror, mirror …
    25. Progress takes time
    26. Five traps to trip you up
    27. Culture check
    28. Build your support crew
    29. Don't stop
  9. Where to next?
  10. A message from Michelle
  11. Sources
  12. Index
  13. End User License Agreement
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