👀What’s a sure fire way a leader can kill a team's morale?

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A few items come to mind:
- my way or the highway mentality,
- pitting two or more employees on the same project to see who completes it faster,
- not providing any feedback or discouraging access to next level management,
- undermining your own personnel with incorrect information,
- not being accessible for any questions or concerns,
- trying to get information ( for example, have you heard any rumors …).

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I’ve never worked directly with leaders, just those who called themselves leaders, or most amusingly those who think they have “the leadership gene” - hilarious! That being said I think one sure way of killing everything (aside from not understanding the work in the first place) is not caring about the project, just seeing it as a box to tick for another manager in the hierarchy who also does not understand the work but who wants more boxes ticked to appease their manager. And so on. It quickly becomes apparent that the only people who survive such a toxic and meaningless environment are those who also don’t care whether the project succeeds or not. It is possibly why projects that emerge in such places are mediocre and eventually get dumbed down to the head of groups level.

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Treating different members of a team differently, playing favorites so to speak. It's a surefire way to determine whether or not someone is a good leader or even wants to lead at all. If they play favorites then they do not have what it takes to lead. This is ok because not everyone is cut out for it.

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MICROMANAGING! Nit-picking every little detail and saying how right they are and how wrong you are. Condescending comments. Stacking large caseloads of work and expecting it all to be done as if the caseload was half the amount. Black and white thinking and attitudes.

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When they are more concerned with the optics of something instead of the truth of the matter

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Being competitive with their own team members, and talking poorly of team members to other parts of the team behind their back

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For me it was unique. I ran the lab at a small place. I was the entire lab staff. When our original boss was talking to people he'd refer to me as the chemist or the lab guy or something. It got bought by a big corp and new boss kept using corporate buzzwords in a place that never heard them before & was mad that people gave him crap for it.

But he would refer to me as the lab team.

That was so silly I had to mock him over it. "Don't tell *ME* there's no I in team when I am the entire team!"

So basically (or acidicly?): Don't march in and impose totally alien ways on people who have been at their jobs, and quite successfully, for decades.

Big Corporate ways do not work in small businesses, especially if dumped on an unsuspecting crew all at once!

I over thought this one. But I know, for a fact, it's a lot of formations of the term leave.

If they leave, in general, there's no amount of time that will keep the project on task; change will happen.

Some leavings are neutral and OK, one for example is leaving you to it.

Leaving you to it should be holistically treated though. Not stepping on each others toes, getting literally and metaphysically out of the way of each other is a conceptual stand point; that is as neutral as it gets, for what it's worth..

But yeah, a leader that has left, because of energy input-output, will always put everyone at the behest of the worst morale they can impart.

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