The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Why Your Boss is Difficult   Are you the engagement survey assassin carving up your boss or are you the victim having to explain to senior management why your team’s scores are so dismal?  Naturally, the very top bosses rarely ever get surveyed, so they can be totally bolshie about your low scores.  Research informs us that Japan is a bastion of bad feelings and unhappiness, leading the world in low scores.  Even taking out the “Japan bias” of conservative scoring, the results here are still pretty miserable.  We also know from the research that the biggest factor in lack of team engagement with the ideals, direction and aspirations of the organization is the lousy relationship staff have with their boss.    Good communication skills are often in short supply with bosses and this leads to unhappiness.  It is not that bosses can’t talk, in fact often they talk and talk and talk.  It is the way they speak and the thinking behind the words that are inflaming their subordinates.  Bosses can be limited by their o