Has your leader given up responsibility or accountability?
I’ve written about our natural tendency toward protecting or dominating, but what if we exhibit neither?
The leadership culture of low challenge and low support is a sobering environment.
The abdicating leader takes a backseat approach to leadership, which means results are low, investment by team members is weak, and very few (if any) staff want to contribute.
You can imagine a variety of scenarios where this plays out:
- a leader with little challenge from above has no sense of need to perform
- a leader coasting toward retirement or job transition has other priorities (outside the workplace) in mind
- an industry with little innovation, where the process runs on autopilot
Imagine what the results could be with a little challenge and a little support?
Changing the culture from abdicator to liberator will not happen overnight, but one step at a time, it can happen.
Where would you place your team?
