A bad boss and a toxic boss are not the same.
These two are very different things. However, I've
noticed people around here using those two terms
synonymously, which misconstrues, a bad manager
and in equates it with a toxic company with toxic
managers on a toxic team with a toxic work
environment. And I know talking about toxic
workplaces is so on trend right now. But it's
important that you can differentiate a bad manager
from a toxic manager. So in today's video, we're
going to dive into how to tell these two apart and
spoiler alert, but the most important one is at
the end, but don't skip to it, because you need to
know the other ones for it to actually make sense.
Why not starting there, if you are ready to learn
about the difference between a bad boss or any
toxic boss, tap that like button, and let's jump
straight into it. The first difference between a
toxic manager and a bad manager is what I'll refer
to as level of management. Bad bosses have a
tendency to over manage like completely randomly
and they're going to be all up in your business.
They give you more instructions than you need
request more information than they need and
generally give you the impression that either
they're nowhere to be found or breathing down your
neck. Often they just can't seem to let go of the
work that you do it. Toxic managers on the other
hand, are chronic micromanagers. They are
critiquing looking over your shoulder monitoring
your computer in your system usage and constantly
searching for that one thing that you did wrong,
they are just waiting for you to mess up. So they
can demean undermine and Vario. Which brings us
directly into the second differentiator between a
toxic manager and a bad manager. And that is
accountability. A bad manager even in most
respects is open to feedback. If you bring forward
a concern to them, like the level of management
that they're applying to you, they will at least
make an effort to resolve the leadership issue.
They might not ask for feedback all the time. And
you might not be super excited to give them
feedback because they're not always going to take
it in the right way. But overall, they consider
perspectives and take accountability for their
mistakes. Toxic managers on the other hand, they
are incapable of being accountable, they botched a
major system deployment. Your fault they miss
communicated something to their boss and look like
an idiot. Your fault lost a major contract by
being crass and insulting to the prospective
customer. Obviously a huge issue and not a damn
issue.
Don't even get me started on how they take
feedback. The toxic boss is likely to be the
gaslighting boss who places blame on the people
who should not be blamed because they are
incapable of turning that finger towards
themselves. And that leads me to the next way to
tell the difference between a bad manager and a
toxic manager how they make other people perceive
you, in fairness, a bad boss and in particular, an
insecure boss might make you look bad to other
people, maybe sometimes, maybe frequently, but
they're not usually doing it to make you look bad
so much as they're trying to make themselves look
better. Not saying it's a good thing and not
saying it's the right thing to do. I'm just saying
what it is, but toxic managers will throw you
under the bus. Even if it's completely
unnecessary, just for the laughs You know, making
you look and feel bad is like a sport that they've
been training for their whole lives. And while a
bad manager will feel guilt or remorse, or some
level of human emotion if they find out that they
made you look bad or feel bad, the toxic manager
counted as Mission completed. In either case,
maintaining your confidence and belief in your own
awesomeness. And making sure that people beyond
your bad manager and toxic manager are aware of it
as well is crucial. I have a free resource that's
going to help you do just that. I'm going to link
it for you down below if you're interested. Which
brings me to the next differentiator between a
toxic boss and a bad boss. Whether they try to do
the right thing or give no effort about doing the
right thing. In general, a bad manager has good
intentions. Sometimes they're abysmally misguided
on what that is and how to do it. But their hearts
in the right place even when their actions aren't
toxic bosses, though have what I would call a
flexible moral fiber. I've seen instances where
toxic managers have permitted and even enabled
illegal behavior at work harassed their team price
gouge customers and so much more. They know what
they're doing is what I'm saying. Which brings us
to the next way to tell the toxic manager from the
bad boss. And that is intention. Bad managers
don't mean to be bad managers put a pin in that
because in a minute I'm going to come back and
explain why bad or difficult bosses end up being
difficult bosses. Perhaps they believe
In draconian corporate structures, which should
have gone the way of the cassette player, or maybe
they're just toxic people bringing their toxicity
everywhere, and in some cases, maybe there's even
an underlying personality disorder, which we don't
know about, but the toxic manager knows what
they're doing. And they're doing it with some
level of intent. And that brings me to the final
way that you can differentiate a bad boss from a
toxic boss. It's all about what they know, in my
experience, the main reason why bad managers are
bad managers is that they just don't know how to
do any better. Many companies have a severe lack
of training and support for new managers. And
those new managers go on to become bad bosses.
They don't want to be your nightmare boss that you
go home and complain about. They literally just
don't know any other way of being a manager. And
these bad managers with the right training and
support can go on to become great leaders. That
said, some bad bosses do graduate to become toxic
managers and toxic managers typically know better,
they have the knowledge and they have the
training, or at least access to it. That's how
they're able to present like leaders you would
actually want to work with at a job interview.
However, despite knowing better, they give zero to
doing better. In my next video, I am going to talk
about a school leaving this issue or other
workplace issues to HR and when you should do it
and when maybe it could hurt your career. If
that's something you want to see. Make sure you
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right now I'd like to know after watching this
video and knowing the difference between a bad
manager and a toxic manager. Which one do you
think you're up against? Let me know in the
comments down below. Now, if you are dealing with
a toxic boss, surviving as unscathed as possible
is essential. It should be your top priority at
work and if you don't know how to do it, go and
watch this video right now where I'm going to tell
you how but before you go if this video helped you
figure out the difference between a toxic manager
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makes you my favorite career. bestie As always,
thank you so much for watching my friends. I will
see you in the next video. Bye for now.