From the course: Leadership Lessons from Bad Bosses
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Characteristics of a boss who exhibits toxic positivity
From the course: Leadership Lessons from Bad Bosses
Characteristics of a boss who exhibits toxic positivity
Why are you smiling? Where's my high five? Don't worry, just be happy. Now, these all sound like pretty positive phrases, right? You're probably thinking, what's the problem? They are, until you've worked for a boss who has been filled with toxic positivity. I nicknamed my former toxic positivity boss, the cheerleader. leader, because here's the thing, he knew how to sell a magical vision that we would all buy into. But it wasn't grounded in reality, and it didn't acknowledge the challenges we were facing as a team. But here's the thing, slowly those fist pumps in the air started to get tiresome. This feeling that as a team we were part of something bigger, this big mission that was greater than ourselves and that we were in fact saving the world, it all just felt so phony and just fake. So what does this cheerleader behavior in a boss look like? Here's what you're going to pay attention to. This boss is going to repeat quotes like they are an Instagram reel. What doesn't kill you…
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