Addendum

First Steps Flow Chart

There is a lot to consider when facing a toxic manager. What are your options? What are the pros and cons of each option? Key issues to assess include:

Strategic Assessment for Dealing with Toxic Superiors

  1. What is the cost of the situation?
    • Can I tolerate it?
    • What is it doing to my career?
    • What is it doing to my health and general well-being?
    • What is it costing my family?
  2. What are my values?
    • Work/life balance?
    • Work success at all cost?
  3. What are my options?
    • Can I improve my ability to tolerate the situation through changes in work style/schedule or through my own executive coaching/therapy?

      How costly is it to make these changes?

    • What are the likely outcomes of formal or informal complaints to superiors? ...

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