Case-The Art of Leadership Leadership is defiantly something that most companies today need work harder at achieving. However, sometimes is a difficult goal to achieve, due to the simple fact that companies don’t continue to support leadership over supervising. An individual can be an amazing leader and not be in a management position. While on the other hand a person in a management position can have no idea how to be a leader and the moral of employees suffers from this lack of knowledge. There is a multitude of differences between managing people and leading people. A leader will get involved in the process and teach those around them how to do a job and work with them every step of the way. A person managing people will simply demand
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My direct boss our kitchen manager is a younger man who is still trying to figure out the best way to be a leader. I am very much an old school individual when it comes to kitchen managers needing to have 24-hour accountability. He struggles with this as well as how he talks and deals with his employees. He has no problem demoralizing anyone or treating them like they are sub-par if he is having an off day. Yet, he is not the worst I have seen in my corporation. That crown goes to our regional vice president. A few weeks ago, our store had a random visit from him as well as our regional manager and the president of our company. I have worked in the restaurant business for over 10 years and have never witnessed something as appalling as this visit. I watched in horror as Dave, the bar manager, and service manager were raked over the coals. This man walked in with an attitude and began talking to all of us as if we were children. After that he turned to our bar manager and asked him a question and when he could answer call him an idiot. He stormed through the kitchen throwing things and screaming at all kitchen staff. It was honestly the hardest four hours of my entire career. Sadly, all we could do was try and make it through it and not lose our own tempers. He was the perfect example of what corporate bullying is and that it does in fact exist. Yet, at the end Dave looked at all of his staff an apologized for his boss and thanked us for our
My direct boss our kitchen manager is a younger man who is still trying to figure out the best way to be a leader. I am very much an old school individual when it comes to kitchen managers needing to have 24-hour accountability. He struggles with this as well as how he talks and deals with his employees. He has no problem demoralizing anyone or treating them like they are sub-par if he is having an off day. Yet, he is not the worst I have seen in my corporation. That crown goes to our regional vice president. A few weeks ago, our store had a random visit from him as well as our regional manager and the president of our company. I have worked in the restaurant business for over 10 years and have never witnessed something as appalling as this visit. I watched in horror as Dave, the bar manager, and service manager were raked over the coals. This man walked in with an attitude and began talking to all of us as if we were children. After that he turned to our bar manager and asked him a question and when he could answer call him an idiot. He stormed through the kitchen throwing things and screaming at all kitchen staff. It was honestly the hardest four hours of my entire career. Sadly, all we could do was try and make it through it and not lose our own tempers. He was the perfect example of what corporate bullying is and that it does in fact exist. Yet, at the end Dave looked at all of his staff an apologized for his boss and thanked us for our