By: Monica Grainger, RSW, MSW For years we have been bombarded with leadership mantras, motivational speakers, and gurus who espouse their innovative, evidence-based, best-practices meant to marvel and inspire the masses. Leaders who are excited to teach their employees new models, new strategies, new evaluations believe they will profit from greater teamwork, increase in production, and yield greater economic results. What leaders ignore is the toll it takes on their employees. Employees are feeling an incredible amount of pressure to perform, are faced with more work and fewer resources and have less emotional support. Consequently, there is a great emotional disconnection with leaders, managers and their employees.This emotional disconnection arises when employees sniff out their disingenuous leaders energetically offering new and improved strategies but in reality they are piling up more work, and forcing employees to continually outperform themselves. […]