Leadership - The negative leader

Keys to identify a negative leadership

Almost in every organization, we can find a positive and negative leader. A confidence leader is someone who acts on the team to encourage them the behavior to achieve common goals, for the team or the organization, using humble and honesty. A negative leader is someone who reaches his or her aims, to obtain a personal reward and acting unethically.

Characteristics of a negative leader

 ¿How can we recognize a negative leader?

1.   The opinion of those leaders it is unique. Even, they act in an arrogance way, and they believe they have the absolute reason and reject any other advice.

2. A negative leader doesn't assume the accountability and considers themselves never make a mistake, and others are who make errors.

3.  Those leaders use reprisals and threats to guide their team. Due to the lack of motive and without communicating with the team, this ‌ leader uses the fear culture to guide their team members.

4.  They like to be adulated by others, owing to they are insecure people, and love working with ‌ less prepared people.

5. They act unjustly and move toward reaching their objectives, showing a dishonest behavior.

In my own experience, I have observed how some leaders mistreat and abuse their team, taking advantage of their authority position. Some of those leaders lie to their bosses or clients and involve their team in those lies, forcing them to act dishonestly.

If you meet a leader, manager or supervisor who has these characteristics, you have to get away from them, because you could face a significant problem, and damage your professional image, no matter if you have to search another job, finally, they will act without ethics and even against you. 

Remember, a good leader act with ethics and values such as humility and honesty.