Is your leadership-style illness-causing or health-promoting?
Are you strengthening or weakening your employees? In this comparison you’ll find prototypes for illness-causing / offending and for health-promoting behavior. See which side is the more typical of you in each case.
illness-causing 1
more criticizing than praising; focusing on mistakes, criticizing in public; taking good performance for granted
health-promoting 1
Praising three times more than criticizing, expressing appreciation; paying more attention to successes than to deficits; seeing the human being behind the work
illness-causing 2
no interest in the employee as an individual; preferring specific individuals (“favorites”); no advancement through training etc.
health-promoting 2
also taking personal aspects of an employee into account; morning greetings, birthday congratulations; welcome back after sickness
illness-causing 3
making all decisions yourself; giving more instructions than listening; tight controls; withdrawing responsibilities
health-promoting 3
addressing changes; responding to employees’ ideas; including them, asking for suggestions
illness-causing 4
arbitrary decisions; no clear lines; using information and power differential for one’s own purposes; showing a poker face towards the employees; ironic tone
health-promoting 4
keeping employees informed in a timely manner; making decisions transparent; clearly defining objectives;expressing one’s own state of mind and opinion