Why Your Team Doesn’t RESPECT You as a Leader (& What to Do About It!)

Do your employees respect you? Maybe you get the feeling that your team doesn't respect you as a leader. And if so, what can you do about it? In this video, I talk about why your team doesn't respect you as a leader and what to do about it. I go through five signs your employees don't respect you and I also help you understand what you can do about it to earn their respect at work.

There are many signs that indicate your team don't respect you as a leader. Some leaders recognise these signs and tailor their leadership style accordingly. Others ignore these signs and their team keep on disliking them. Don't be one of those leaders who ignore these signs. After you watch this video, you'll have no excuse!

Timestamps:
00:00 Why your team doesn't respect you and what to do about it
01:00 Reason #1 (When you don't stick to your word)
03:13 Reason #2 (When you don't appear strong)
05:49 Reason #3 (When you don't care)
08:48 Reason #4 (When you don't have tough conversations)
11:17 Reason #5 (When you don't make tough decisions)

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[RodreneLiverpool]

Basically you have to be focused, decisive, honest and reliable...this is awesome ❤❤ Thank you ❤❤

[gettingphinenow]

This is excellent I’ve been guilty of several of these o er the course of my career,

[veddwivedi]

Very lovely presentation and teaching ❤

[eszterboczan]

I love how you always find very nuanced and very important topics, Kara! This is spot on as well, ˋunfortunately´ 3 out of 5 have resonated with me 😄, but it’s better to be aware if these. Thanks for the helpful tips on how to avoid these mistakes, too.

[meloliriko]

Thank you for this, it open my eyes and let me see in others perspective

[evm]

Kara believe me I try not just at work even at home respect matters, will definitely take note of these key pointers moving forward. 🤓👍
Thanks you've been so much help lately specially with this topic.. Would love to hear more, Also hope to let you know how things transpire.

[LeNguyen-imdm]

I used to be a manufacturing team lead for 3 years and everyone respected me for strong technical skills and good problem solving. Team members relied on me all the time and they couldn’t do well without me. I left the company because I was underpaid for my work contribution. Good problem-solving is very important.

[EpicDreamer_]

Thank you dear Kara! What I can say from my experience, is the fact managers are not people of knowledge. They usually use other people expertise and results to promote themselves, which is quite selfish and not a good leadership skill in my opinion. What about selective honesty from leaders, depending on the importance and position? For instance, respecting priorities and integrity of older colleagues managers and not new younger people who also work hard to be visible and noticed? Thank you for clear explanation on topics that matter!

[TheMarcosWilker]

These are valuable lessons if se want to be a better leader as we get the chance but in reality we don't lead, we are bossed by someone incompetent and dumb for the position. They don't keep their word, they don't respect the staff, they don't tackle problems, they create, instead, don't take decisions. It seems they give a shit for how we feel or think. They are not strong but they make us feel weak and demoralized. Their lack of moral and energy contaminates us.

[denadear]

I have watched the person who was named as our site lead not being treated with respect. And these examples that you described are the very reasons I see. While I think it's important to have respect in the workplace, I am not surprised to see that just because someone is in a leadership position, it does not mean they are automatically treated as such. Respect needs to be cultivated. You need to prove to people that you can be trusted and supporting.

[jenicemckenzie]

How about the Team members who do not respect you because they feel entitled and do not want to follow the rules? What about the emotional immature employees who sees criticism and guidelines as disrespect? What about those who are disrespectful because they are stuck in the old way of doing things? What about employees who are self centred? What about employees who are jealous of the leader? What about ungrateful employees? What of disrespectful bosses of the leader who turn the Team against you?

[evankaiser]

Big problem is people do not like direct language as they find it confronting. Taking an interest in their work is like being a micromanager in their peoples eyes and not being an enthusiastic lwader about their work. Having the tough conversations is like requesting them to find another to get the answer from another DR shopping "

[angryfish]

I struggle with #4. I feel strong in every other aspect but horrible at this. I’m a young manager. The youngest in my fortune 50 company. It’s hard for me to crack down on grown men that have been in the business as long as I have been alive…

[v.h.]

I treat the Team with respect. My colleague shouts at them and treats them poorly. They prefer her over me and I can't get over it.

[terrismith]

I make decisions, but I also ask my team to make decision a with me

[lucapietrangeli]

Personally, i lost my respect for my leadership cause they kept asking me to record and discuss problems with them but then they wouldn't listen. They'd ask me to continue recording and communicating our issues to leadership so they can help us resolve it but then they wouldn't do anything. In fact, they would tell me these issues are happening because i wasn't communicating to them well enough. I stopped sharing our issues with leadership cause it was a waste of time. My team would come to me to get things resolved because they knew going to our leadership would be a bigger waste of time. I think that got me in hot water

[lilabukvic]

How I can get personal gajdance from you?
Im brutaly bullied on my work just because I have difficult to express my self in balanced right way.
Last 24 year I suffer a lot.

[منصورعريبي-حس]

I happy with youss, i will inter inside porpose, at expression have in it word including in perfux as indirect or indecision, in mean inside, but undirct, me in youss best, me un youss

[RodreneLiverpool]

If the team doesn't want to follow your decision, what effective measures you can take in that situation?

[shahshreeta]

Extroverts always gossiping and wanting a lot of attention to discuss their personal life.