Leadership Development—How to Progress from a Negative Leader to a Positive One (Or Make a Positive Leader Even Better!)

Barbara Welss Eversole ()
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Barbara Welss Eversole: Indiana State University

Chapter Chapter 10 in The Leadership Spectrum, 2025, pp 141-165 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the final chapter, we take a leadership development perspective and discuss how to help bad leaders become better leaders. We start with uncivil leaders, as they are the most common and the easiest to influence to become either civil or effective leaders, which would have the biggest impact on organizations today. We then discuss how to help effective and coaching leaders to become even better leaders. We then turn to developing bad leaders by first looking at the reasons bad leaders flourish in organizations and how to deal with them. Finally, we look at the worst of the worst, and see what options there are to help them be less destructive in the workplace and find some empathy for their employees.

Keywords: Leadership development; Why bad leaders persist; Empathy development; Teaching civility; Training compassion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-73557-8_10

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