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:

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?

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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