Is there a boss kind of a dummy? Or are they toxic AF?
There's all sorts of ways that your manager
might be a bad manager. But really, it all comes
down into them falling into one of the five types
of bad bosses. And if you're going to deal with
them effectively, you need to know who you're
dealing with. So let's talk about the five types
of bad managers. Hello, my friend. And if you're
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me over there. Enough about that though, who was
our first bad boss, the first bad boss type we
need to talk about is the clueless boss. And
honestly, this one probably accounts for the vast
majority of bad managers, because most bad bosses
are not evil villains who are spending their free
time plotting how to make your life miserable at
work, you know, my favorite quote, don't assume
malice, when stupidity will suffice. Apply it
here, the reality is, is that most managers do not
have sufficient training, they're on enabled,
which if that's not a word, it is now and they're
typically thrown into positions without the right
skill set to succeed. In fact, I would even go so
far as to say that most of those managers want to
be good managers, they just have no idea how to be
a good manager, they haven't gotten the training,
knowledge and implementation support they need to
succeed, or maybe they had some of those things,
or even all of those things, but it's not going so
well. Typically, the things that get you promoted
into management have absolutely nothing to do with
leadership. So while they got to the position,
because they were really good at their job, at
least hopefully, they don't have the talent, or
maybe even the interest in people leadership takes
time to get there Don't believe me? Well, I'm kind
of proof when I was first promoted into
leadership, I didn't get any training. And it's
not because my company didn't have great new
manager training. It did. I just happened to get
promoted at a time where there was like this whole
travel embargo thing. So anyone who wasn't sitting
in HQ didn't get the training. And I was not in
HQ, and honestly, managing people with something
that I had to do to have the role. It wasn't
something that I necessarily wanted to do when I
took the role. Because of those things. I was
probably a nightmare manager for a while there.
Luckily, I had a phenomenal manager who mentored
and guided me, but your boss might not have that
fantastic boss helping them out. So does it make
your boss less bad if they're in on enabled boss
or an incompetent boss, maybe not. But maybe
having a little bit of empathy is going to make
your life easier. And it's also a great signal for
you. The best way to cope with this manager is to
manage up they just don't know what they don't
know. And you can really help them out. This is
such a big thing that I have a whole video that
focuses just on managing up all in here and in the
description. So you can watch it after this one.
And we will now move into our second type of bad
boss, which is the boss that gets in your way this
bad boss comes in a few different flavors. First,
there's the bad boss who gets in your way because
they're a micromanager. I also have a whole video
on micromanaging bosses. I'll also link that in
fact, any of the bad bosses that I have dedicated
videos for all create a whole playlist for you
guys. But let's talk about the micromanaging boss
for a hot minute right here. They're frustrating
because not only do they get in your way, slow you
down and annoy you. They do not give you space to
grow as a professional. And let's face it, my
friend, you're probably here because you are a
professional who cares about growing. what
underlies micromanagement so often is that you're
actually dealing with an insecure boss, they're
not confident as a leader about their skills, how
well they can support you, or even their own job
stability, and they take it out on you by
micromanaging you and getting in your way,
especially when you're really talented and doing
really great work because if they are inserting
themselves, they can take credit for it right
which by the way happens to be the topic of my
next videos. If you want to see that make sure
you're subscribed Of course micromanaging and then
taking credit for your work isn't the only way
that your bad boss gets in your way at work. Some
bad bosses change Their mind often they move the
goalposts right as you're about to hit it, they're
indecisive. And they even contradicts themselves.
This might be because of their own lack of
clarity, their lack of ability to set and manage
expectations, or perhaps because they're subject
to the will of their own bad boss. This type of
bad boss is also one who is likely to get in the
way of your career advancement, they won't assign
you to any interesting work that would actually
propel your career forward. Or if you're working
on something that's kind of juicy, they reassign
it to someone else, especially when you start
getting visibility by senior leadership, or maybe
they're a passive aggressive boss and their
sabotage is more established, subtle, subtle and
harder to detect. They're undermining you during
meetings and presentations, taking backhanded
digs, or maybe they're just straight up aggressive
and throwing you under bosses to save themselves.
This type of advice can also be the bad boss who
sets you up to fail, they give you impossible
tasks, impossible to achieve metrics, unexpected
outcomes that would require a moderately sized
miracle to actually be achievable. And of course,
when they do that, they make it a 100% you problem
and give you no support or guidance from their
side, you know, you're being set up to fail, they
know they're setting you up to fail, it's just a
matter of the inevitable unfolding. No matter the
flavor. The bad boss who gets in your way isn't
just frustrating. They might be stalling your
career. And if you have this type of bad boss,
you're going to wish you had the next type of bad
boss who I like to call.
When you need their help or input, they're nowhere
to be found. Where do they go, their most prolific
goes boss is the lazy boss, they're here for the
paycheck not to get the job done. They are
excessive delegators, which is great because you
get to do a lot of different things on their
behalf, you know, stretch assignments and all
that. But at some point, you realize they've given
away all of their work. And while our last type of
bad boss was setting you up to fail, the ghost
boss doesn't know what they're setting you up for,
because they don't really exist, at least from a
functional perspective, even when the ghost boss
is there and they're going through the motions and
maybe they aren't passing off all of their work.
They're not really doing anything to help you they
offer little to no mentorship or guidance to you.
And if you so much as email them a question, you
know that his going into a black hole never to be
seen or heard from again, they're just not
interested in supporting you. Or maybe they just
don't know how to support you, no matter their
motivation. You have minimal contact and minimal
guidance with the ghost boss, which may be a dream
job, but it can leave you not really knowing how
to move your career forward. Or if you're doing a
good job, or a bad job or a mediocre job and in
this case are really if you're dealing with any of
these types of bad bosses, it's important for you
to know what you are awesome at and that's why I
made my UAQ Starter Kit free for you to download
o you can uncover your unique awesomeness and
levate your career. Now let's talk about the
ourth type of bad boss This is the type of boss I
an make going to work a real nightmare that is
he boss I know that label is really vulgar. So
'll just casually refer to this type of boss as
he cylindrical donkey do I even need to qualify
hat this bad boss is like? This can be the boss
ho plays favorites. You know Chad loves the other
hat on the team because he reminds him of himself
nd many Chad's success reminds him and validates
f of his own success. So he gives him
referential treatment and praises him for his
ediocrity or that credit snatching boss that we
alked about earlier, you do the work, they take
he credit and pretend you weren't involved at
ll. There's the inconsiderate boss who quite
rankly is just a jerk is bad manager is just
traight up rude. You don't have to be friends
ith their boss. And you don't even have to like
our boss. But you should have a positive and
roductive working relationship with your boss and
eally with all your co workers. The thing is when
t comes to the cylindrical donkey boss, they just
an't have that with anyone unless there's
omething in it for them or Chad's. And really
hat is the epitome of this type of bad boss. It's
ll about them. They don't care if you're winning.
hey don't care if the team is winning. They don't
are if the company is winning. All they care
bout is the fact that they are winning that sad.
his type of bad boss isn't a really intent on
aking your life miserable. They just lack
nterest in your experience all together. So
hey're not malicious per se. They just don't care
or whatever that's worth and that actually brings
s to our last type of bad boss and that is the
oxic Boss. This is the type of bad boss who truly
erives delight from your misery. And if you've
atched any of my videos before, you know what I'm
oing to say about coping with a toxic boss, the
nly effective way to cope with them is to get
way from them. Let me know in the comments if you
all that one sure you can avoid and minimize your
ontact. But there was no path of shining when
ou're taking on the heavy lifting of persuasion
nd all of the things that you need to do to
eally deal with that individual. If you can
ransfer to another team or manager do it if you
eed to apply your escape do that because here's
he thing about the toxic boss versus all of the
ther bad boss types. If you're a bad boss is just
toxic person, there is no fixing them. You can't
anage up with a toxic manager at least not
ustainably. And with this type of bad boss there
ight even be some underlying personality
isorder. For example, you might be dealing with a
arcissistic boss or they can be one of the 20% of
orporate leaders who could be diagnosed with
sychopathy. Now there are nine signs that your
oss is toxic and if you think you have a toxic
oss, you need to know what they are you need to
now who you're dealing with. So I want you to go
nd watch this video right now so you know the
igns that your boss is toxic, but before you go
f this video helped you, give it a thumbs up it
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avorite career. bestie as always my friends thank
ou so much for watching. I will see you in the
ext video. Bye for now.