Signs Employees Do Not Feel Trusted

As a leader, how do you know if your employees feel mistrusted? Here are some signs to look for and how to crush trust.



Except from the upcoming book, “A Psychopaths Guide To Leadership“.

As a leader, how do you know if your employees feel mistrusted? Here are some signs to look for and how to crush trust.:

You do all the talking in meetings

When you meet with your team, do you spend most of the time talking at them, telling them what to do? What kind of interaction happens in the discussion? None? Will people openly disagree with you? No? Perfect!

When you ask for opinions, you hear crickets

When you ask others for feedback, what you want is reinforcement, not critique or lame suggestions. If feedback occurs, become defensive and explain why the person is wrong, misinformed, or just a dumb SOB. Do this in front of as many people as possible so that the rest of these losers learn that you aren’t interested in feedback – just in getting your rhubarb stroked.

Employees ask for permission when they don’t need it

If they aren’t asking permission for everything north of permission to breathe, let them knows who’s boss. For example:

Taking off work for doctor appointments? No, use WebMD.Child sick at school? No. The school has a nurse, that’s why you pay taxes.Dead mother? No. You can’t help her now, get back to work.

If your employees run and hide when they see you coming, treat it sign you’ve successfully molded them into people Jell-O.

You only hear good news

You will yell at them if it’s bad. This way nothing bad every happens. Easy – Peasy. 

Just in case there is a human in that psychopathic shell of yours, you do not want to know anything about your people. If you were a rancher, you wouldn’t name your cows, right? Leadership is like ranching. People, like cows, are commodities.

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