Top Signs that indicate you are a BAD BOSS

1. Your Staff Escapes / Hide from you

You would never or very rarely see people walk by your cabin door, even if your door happens to be at a point where your employees have to pass to get to the pantry area or the coffee vending machine. Maybe they would rather prefer to circum navigate through the entire office or may be the building itself, instead being at a risk of being invited by you for something. So in short they are trying good to avoid any conversation or interaction with you. This isn’t a good sign and you would soon see your projects breaking apart.

2. People would have Apprehension to Join Your Team

People generally won’t volunteer to be part of your projects or initiatives. Either your project or idea just sucks and they are afraid to tell this fact to you on your face or your idea is simply brilliant, but in the event of failure the consequences they could face are terrible to imagine. So you might end up under staffing your project with quality people. Some smart fellow might even come up to you and tell you that he is just aren’t capable enough to handle the responsibilities of your project, whereas at the back of your mind you do feel otherwise.

3. Bogus Reviews during Appraisals

During your 360-degre evaluations you might receive generic positive comments with little or no criticism at all. You might get comments like, “He works hard at everything, but he just couldn’t match up his own expectations. Your own standard levels are too high.”

4. “How to handle your Boss” Rule Book

Your staff has developed a guideline or a rule book consisting of list of ideas for dealing with you and they are quietly passing them around to new employees or new team members. A typical list of DO’s and DON’Ts might contain –

Don’ts-
Never suggest new and smarter ways of doing something, he might say……
Never counter his point, remember, HE IS ALWAYS RIGHT.

Do’s-
Act self-deprecating so he doesn't feel threatened.
Give him credit for things he has never done.
Praise him for all silly ideas he comes up with.

5. Your Former Employees just disappear

You have a list of people who have left your company for better career opportunities, but they rarely give your name as reference at new jobs. Either they just don’t trust you or they just don’t want to be in touch with you in anyway and wouldn’t want any of your thoughts to disturb them on their new jobs. If you feel such a thing is happening with you, it indeed high time for you to change.

6. People just come and go

You have extremely high attrition rates. People come to work on your project and they just go away without completing anything. They are just don’t like your attitude or the way you do things.

7. Your party invites receive no response

You plan to host a party somewhere for some occasion and you have send out invites to your staff members. They aren’t just RSVP’d. So you should understand why that is the case. You are just not a people person.

8. Your Tasks list is never completed

You have assigned a bunch of tasks to your team members, but in spite of everything, you just don't see anything significant happening in your project. Your staff is not giving their best shot and they are killing time by doing silly mistakes.