High cost of toxic leadership

By creating a psychologically safe environment, staff feel comfortable sharing their ideas and an innovation culture develops.

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Normally, when organisations are formed either locally or internationally, the common driving force behind their formation is profit making or how they can create an impact on a society. And when they start experiencing challenges of poor performance, the common focus to solve the challenge is to focus on how they can get additional finance to save the situation.

But this was recently debunked when we hosted a group of executives on a leadership programme at Strathmore University Business School. During that session, we were struck by the sheer volume of concerns raised regarding the difficulties they normally experience working with their leaders. We narrowed down the various concerns to the common challenge of toxic leaders in organisations.

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