The Threat Response Barrier – A Surprisingly Costly Reaction
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When you lead a team, one of your most important jobs is to maintain, or ideally, improve team performance. The more you can improve team performance, the greater the value or profit the business gets from your team and therefore the move value you create as a manager.
Businesses want to grow and be successful. Profitability is one of THE measures of success in business.
Managers create the most value through the teams they lead. When teams are successful AND contribute the most profit to the business, the manager that leads that team is deemed to be doing a great job.
Leadership team members and bosses would be MAD to give their best managers – those whose teams create the most profit – more people to manage. i.e. promotion.
When team performance and profit is FALLING, those managers come under a lot of pressure to improve team performance, and if they CAN’T improve performance, the manager’s job security is seriously threated. Managers with falling team performance are never promoted.
So when your worst team member is DAMAGING team performance (even unintentionally), the manager of that team has a very real emotional and survival based response to the psychological threat they are experiencing.
This is the Threat Response, which is a very natural reaction – one that has ensured our survival for generation.
A manager’s natural reaction to being psychologically threatened creates a HUGE BARRIER to getting IMPROVEMENT from their worst employee. This is the Threat Response Barrier.
Please play the video above to learn more about this barrier AND what to do to PREVENT the Threat Response barrier impacting you, your team and your promotion prospects.
