As many of you know, Harry Paul and I have written a new book called, Instant Turnaround! which provides detailed instructions on how any Bad Boss can become a Great Boss literally overnight. All you have to do is visit our BossTrenz website (click here to go), and “tag” your Bad Boss by purchasing a copy of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The War on Bad Bosses is a grass roots campaign that will turn businesses, as we know them, upside down and make them the the kind of workplaces that everyone looks forward to going to every day. There are a number of things that you can do to spread the word.
Tell everyone you know about our War [...]
Read the rest of this entry »A Bad Boss is anyone who manages people in ways that do not bring out their best. If we are going to band together and rid the world of Bad Bosses, we must first adopt the following Zero Tolerance policy for Bad Bosses at all Levels:
Zero tolerance for bad bosses who make the lives of the people who work [...]
Read the rest of this entry »It has been estimated that the cost of employee turnover in America is 1.7 trillion dollars annually. That’s a huge drain on American businesses. Studies have also shown that the biggest single reason people quit their jobs is the behavior of their immediate boss–they were either abusive, didn’t care about them, didn’t listen, didn’t notice or appreciate what [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The biggest problem we face in the War on Bad Bosses is that most Bad Bosses think they’re doing a pretty good job. I asked one person, who I knew was a pretty Bad Boss–he was very prone to yelling at his employees–to read a copy of Instant Turnaround! This book will show any Bad Boss [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Numerous studies have shown that when employees feel they’re being treated well, all sorts of business performance indicators improve. When employees feel they’re being treated well, they’re more productive, provide better customer service, are more willing to sieze the initiative, get along better with fellow employees and have far lower rates of absenteeism, turnover and theft. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »When an employee puts forth an idea, his or her ego is connected to it. Consequently, if you their boss, put down or attack their idea, you bruise their ego and they become defensive and unproductive. Now that employee is working against you instead of with you. So, the next time someone presents an idea to you–even if you don’t agree with [...]
Read the rest of this entry »One of the things that highly successful athletic coaches have in common is that they are able to keep people and problems separate. These coaches are very demanding when it comes to performance, but they treat their players with kindness, dignity and respect. As a result, their players love them to death because they know their coach is looking [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Bad Bosses are everywhere. They not only make us miserable; they take a huge toll on our physical and mental health. In most businesses, it’s always been a boss’s prerogative to be bad if he or she feels like it and the employee’s role to put up with it. Until now, there has really been [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Sometimes bosses attempt to gain the respect of their employees by calling attention to themselves–things they’ve accomplished, places they’ve been, things they own, people they know and so forth. While such behavior comes naturally to us, it does nothing when it comes to gaining the people who work for you because they tend [...]
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