How bosses demoralize their employees

How often does your manager tell you to ____? Do you

suppose that it encourages you or is it a meaningless phrase?

• keep up the good work

• steal

• thunder

Why does a manager sometimes ___ their employees ___ when they present team ideas to superiors? Has it ever happened to you? What can be done to prevent this behaviour?

• carrot/ stick

• guiding/ spirit

• steal/ thunder

• crushed/ spirit?

What kind of person can be a ___in a modern tech company? What

character traits are needed to be such a person? Do you know anybody like

that?

• runs out of steam

• carrot and stick

• guiding spirit

What kind of ___ approaches does your company use to motivate

staff? Do you think they are useful? Which ones might be more effective?

• carrot and stick

• runs out of steam

• put their heart and soul into

What happens to a company when it ___ and does not innovate

anymore?

• go the extra mile

• runs out of steam

• keep up the good work

How do you make people ___ their work or an idea?

• go the extra mile

• crushed your spirit?

• put their heart and soul into

What was the one experience that really ___? How did you

overcome it?

• steal

• thunder

• crushed your spirit

Would you ___ to help your teammates? For example, would you

do overtime to help them finish their work or cover for them on your free day?

• go the extra mile

• put their heart and soul into

• guiding spirit