Leaders Lead, Leaders Read with Dr. Shaunta Scroggins

S5E2: Is Toxicity Terminal?

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Today's topic asks whether toxic leadership is terminal. The answer is no, toxic leadership can be addressed successfully and replaced with transformational policies and practices. Dr. Shaunta refers to Alma Ortega's six scenarios that are not toxic leadership from Ortega's book Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership (2017). These scenarios inspire leaders to think more broadly about defining toxic leadership beyond opinions and experiences.

  1. Dynamic leaders with high and reasonable expectations
  2. Self-starters who value discipline and set realistic deadlines
  3. Absences for good reasons, such as overlapping duties on committees
  4. Leaders who ask for transparency when teams do not fulfill responsibilities
  5. Personality clashes
  6. Incompetence

    7. References mentioned: Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership by Alma Ortega; Transforming Toxic Leaders by Alan Goldman

    The Leaders Lead, Leaders Read Podcast is sponsored by the Center for Legacy Driven Leadership. Sharing the language of leadership through toxic leadership awareness and prevention, and leader development. Follow us on social media @legacyleadershipcenter. 

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