| The challenge is that it’s lie, and by lying to your team, and it breaks trust in the relationship.
Most employees want to please their bosses and leaders and are willing to go above and beyond from time to time to do so.
The temptation for supervisors here is to misuse the focus, energy, and urgency that comes with an artificially aggressive deadline to temporarily increase productivity.
The long term result of this, however, is broken trust. When employees find out (which they always do) that deadline was not real, they feel burnt and betrayed. This broken trust leads to skepticism, resentment, and resistance.
If you’re in a position of leadership in your company, please do not fall into the temptation of “phantom deadlines” and trick yourself into thinking it’s a “style,” it’s ethical, or worth doing.
In the long run, it never works. |
