The BIGG Successs Show
How To Be A Terrible Boss
A fun, animated discussion that offers advice on how to drive your employees away. Apparently, George & Mary-Lynn are experts at it! Listen to the show and read the summary here.
Welcome to The Big Success Show. Today, we'll tell you how to be a terrible boss. The Big Success Show with George and Mary Lynn. You know Mary Lynn, when I first became a manager, someone told me that people join companies, but they leave managers, and it turns out that research actually supports that little nugget of wisdom. So today we want to share seven ways to drive your employees away. Yeah, and we want to see how we fare as managers, so we actually gather together our whole Big Success staff here in the studio. Yeah, and we've asked them to rate us, so we know how we're doing. Yeah, and the first way to drive your employees away is to be indecisive. Oh, yes. Post-pone making decisions, send it to committee, call in a consultant. There's all kinds of ways of doing this. Yeah, you have to wait until you have absolutely every piece of information. You've analyzed all the alternatives. It's like ready, aim, aim, aim, never fire. Never fire. And it's one sure way to get rid of your employees. So, how do we do guys? Are we decisive enough for you? Wait, what's happening? Where are you going? Mary Lynn, I'm dumbfounded. We just lost like 10% of our staff. Yeah, I guess we've learned something. We're going to have to be more decisive. I guess you're right. Well, let's go to the second one. The second way to drive your employees away is don't let them know what you expect. Yeah, don't have a plan that you share with them. Don't set goals. Don't establish priorities. Never set a deadline. After all, why stick your neck out and make a commitment? If your people don't know what you expect of them, they'll never know how they're doing. They'll never have that sense of accomplishment that comes from reaching a goal. So, how did we do? Do you know what we expect? Oh, come on! We just lost some more. That's it, George. We're going to write our plan when this show is over. Well, yeah, I guess we better, Mary Lynn. Let's get on to the third way. I'm almost scared to do this. But the third way to drive your employees away is to be inaccessible. Yeah, don't be around. But when you are, make sure you keep your door shut. Yeah, or if it's open, always look like you're too busy to talk to anybody. Now, what do you say, guys? We're available when you need us, aren't we? You've got to be kidding me. Mary Lynn, we've only got like half of our staff left now. Guess we better make more time for our people. Oh, the fourth way to drive people away. Are you sure we should go on? I don't know. Be inflexible. Always follow the rules. Never make an exception. After all, the rules aren't there to expedite business. They're the law. Yeah, it's all about your time. Not theirs. Their lives don't matter. Their lives don't matter. Business must always come first. So let's put it out for a question. Are we inflexible? There they go. There they go. Vicky's. We lost a bunch again, Mary Lynn. Looks like we better start using our wisdom instead of always applying the rules with an iron fist. Well, let's see if we can get it right this time. The fifth way to drive your employees away is to be inconsistent. Make decisions on the whim of your emotions. Hmm, what's my mood today? Yeah, or you can show favoritism. You know, don't treat all of your people the same. Treat them based on who you like and who you don't. So gang, are we consistent? Mary Lynn, I'm past the point of being surprised anymore. I guess we are consistent. We're consistently driving our employees away. Yeah, but hey, at least our favorites are still here. Thanks guys. Thank goodness. So for our favorites, here's the sixth way you can drive employees away. That is to make them feel unappreciated. Yeah, don't tell them when they're doing a good job. Publicly criticize them. Talk about one employee to another. Yeah, and don't listen to their ideas. Just quickly dismiss them as if they don't matter. Don't trust them with any major responsibilities. So we want to know, you do feel appreciated, don't you? George, I've run out of things to say about this. So before we lose all of our people, we better get to our final tip to drive your employees away. And that's coming up. Well, Mary Lynn, today we're talking about how to be a bad manager, and apparently we're experts in this subject. Yeah, apparently. Because we don't have many employees left. So the seventh and final way to drive your employees away is don't lead by example. Yeah, expect your employees to do as you say, but not as you do. There's one set of rules for you and another for them. So come on guys, do we lead by example? Hey, come on, stay. Oh. Mary Lynn, we've lost them all. It's just you and me now. Yeah, I guess so. It's lonely at the top. Or at the bottom. I guess we have learned a lot today. And we definitely need to learn more. Tell us what you think drives employees away. Leave us a comment at big success dot com. That's also where you'll find a written summary of today's show. And before we go and lose anything else, let's get our big quote for today, George. Our big quote comes from E. M. Kelly, who said, the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says go. A leader says, let's go. So if you want to drive your employees away, keep driving them. And George? Yes. You've driven me too far. What? Yep. I'm out of here too. You're on your own. Jeez. I don't know what to say. I'd say this show hasn't been a big success. We've lost all of our people. I may have even lost my co-host. Well, you know what they say. The show must go on. So next time we're going to talk about, I'll talk about how to reach your goals this week. Oh, yeah, George. And here's to your big success. The Big Success Show at B-I-G-G Success dot com. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [BLANK_AUDIO]