If you treat employees like crap.
No one regardless of their job title should feel they have the right to treat or speak to an employee anyway they feel.
The job title doesn’t matter, how you treat people do.
A CEO is just letters if she or he doesn't know how to treat people properly. A VP or Manager title doesn’t matter if they can’t lead with integrity. True leadership is not defined by our job titles it must be earned through our actions.
A job title is just a term that describes in a few words or less the position held by an employee.
It does not give you permission to yell, abuse, or manipulate people at the workplace. If anything, your job title should be a symbol of integrity, leadership, and inspiration.
Some people use their job title to hide behind the fact that they don’t know how to treat or interact with others in the workplace properly.
Our power and influence are in our actions, and we eventually have to face the type of person we truly are. People can’t give what they don’t have, respect included (which is why personal development is so important).
Eventually, employees will realize that being treated unfairly is not something they need to stand for and they will leave.
It’s time to examine our motives and do better by one other. How we treat others regardless of status on the org chart will come back and reflect on the business and culture. Investing in treating employees better in the workplace should be a top priority. Regardless of your job title.
Charisse Fontes is the founder of Culture Circle and an Executive + People Ops Advisor to founders and leadership teams.
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