B32 | How to protect yourself from the harmful impact of destructive leadership | Ideas for change 20 minutes
Tracks
Track 2 | Grand Ballroom 2 | Live Streamed & Filmed
| Saturday, July 9, 2022 |
| 1:55 PM - 2:15 PM |
| Grand Ballroom 2 |
Overview
Hybrid: In-person live +
Presenter
Dr Vicki Webster
Founder And Director
Incisive Leaders Pty Ltd
How to protect yourself from the harmful impact of destructive leadership
1:55 PM - 2:15 PMPromotional description
Most attendees at this conference will have experienced destructive leadership at some time during their career. For many no action was taken by the organisation to address the issue. So, at times it seems it is left up to us as individuals to find the best way to minimise the harm caused by toxic bosses. Typical coping mechanisms are not effective (i.e. working harder or trying to build a better relationship with the manager). The surprising truth is that avoidance-based coping (i.e. avoiding the boss, taking leave) can be adaptive, at least in the short term, to allow time to step back and develop continency plans and an exit strategy. Let me share with you three steps that are crucial to coping with destructive leadership and responding in a way that does not harm your wellbeing or your career.
Learning outcomes
At the conclusion of this TEDx talk, attendees will be able to:
• Identify destructive leadership behaviours and their impact on individual targets
• Predict how individual targets are likely to react to destructive leadership behaviours
• Be able to leverage strategies that can assist individual targets to inhibit the urge to react in harmful ways
• Identify destructive leadership behaviours and their impact on individual targets
• Predict how individual targets are likely to react to destructive leadership behaviours
• Be able to leverage strategies that can assist individual targets to inhibit the urge to react in harmful ways
Author(s)
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Dr Vicki Webster is an organisational psychologist with over twenty years’ consulting experience, working with leaders, individuals, teams, and organisations to enhance the quality of leadership and team performance. Her PhD researched the impact of the dark side of leadership on followers. Results of Vicki’s research and organisational programs have been published in a range of forums: Survival Kit for Targets of Toxic Leaders, Incisive Leaders; Assisting organisations to deal effectively with toxic leadership in the workplace, InPsych; Fight, Flight or Freeze: Common Responses for Follower Coping with Toxic Leadership, Stress and Health; Toxic Boss at Work, The Conversation; and co-author with Prof. Paula Brough Destructive Leadership in the Workplace and its Consequences: Translating theory and research into evidence-based practice, due out in January 2022.
