Posts Tagged ‘Negative’

Believe in Them – Even the Most Negative Employee

Tue
29th Jun
2010

This blog is about those tough performance management conversations with difficult employees – and gaining the critical results needed. Results for you as the manager, the organisation, the team you manage and the individual themselves.

I know it might seem hard to believe when you think about your most negative employee – but no-one sets out in life to be purposely difficult! People don’t define their life’s mission to be the worst employee ever known and to make themselves and those around them miserable. Somewhere on the way they got lost, took the wrong approach, made the wrong decision and never had the opportunity to learn how to get out the type of situation they now find themselves in.

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One Negative Employee = Exhaustion!

Mon
26th Apr
2010

Exhausted by negative employee
Sometimes I can forget the impact that just one negative team member can have on a group of people and on the leader. But this was brought home to me once again just the other week whilst delivering a workshop.

Right from the moment this one individual entered the room it was clear that they considered training courses to be a waste of time. Unfortunately, they successfully recruited two of their friends to join them in sitting with backs to the main group, arms folded and whispering amongst themselves.

I attempted to engage with them and to encourage them to make a contribution to the discussions and exercises. But nothing had an impact and their behaviour continued. (more…)

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