Team Leader Seminar – Five Sure-Fire Tactics Guaranteed to Dishearten Any Team!
1. Confidently claim your answer or solution is the best.
2. Don’t solicit input. BONUS – Learn the art of ignoring or deflecting ideas the team does happen to share with you (TIP – reinforce with tactic #1).
3. Give more attention and opportunity to team members who don’t align with the organization’s values or buy in to the team’s purpose but are clearly more talented (TIP – talent trumps values).
4. Criticize and correct subordinates work.
5. Publicly joke about subordinates’ weaknesses and failures.
Purposeful, regular application of these tactics yields the best results.
“Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.” William Shakespeare, King Lear
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