OVERVIEWMost
organizations have employees who on occasion:
• Complain & gossip excessively
• Use inappropriate language
• Are mildly insubordinate
But Toxic Employees have interpersonal styles that demonstrate a pattern of
counter-productive work behaviors. While Emotionally Intelligent employees
being aware of their feelings & those of others exhibit a pattern of
appropriate self-management.
The toxic employee problem is surprisingly prevalent with research showing:
• 95% of employees have & 64% are currently working with a
toxic employee
• 50% of employees have thought of quitting & 12% did because
of a toxic employee
• 25% of employees have reduced their work effort due to a toxic
employee
• 20% of employees feel they are a target weekly & 10% of
employees see toxic behavior daily
Toxic employees cause significant overt, covert, people-related & financial
damage, with their visible behavior just being the tip of the iceberg. For
example, in one organization the day a former employee left the organization is
considered one of their annual holidays.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND
Clever
toxic employees:
• Utilize their technical expertise to intimidate & manipulate
• Know who to flatter & who they can abuse
• Turn their toxicity on & off depending on the impression they want to
make
Unfortunately, organizations can work against themselves & even promote
toxicity by:
• Restructuring his/her job to accommodate a toxic employee
• Tolerating toxic employees who have valued expertise
• Not assertively seeking employee feedback as to whether there is toxic
behavior in the workplace
• Not communicating to all employees the specific interpersonal behaviors that
will not be tolerated – with the associated consequences
Managers sometimes attempt to fix this type of problem by addressing toxic
employee attitudes. And while a toxic employee's attitude certainly affects
his/her behavior, managers usually find that controlling an employee's attitude
is next to impossible.
Managers can be much more effective by:
• Discussing the specific behaviors that are negatively impacting other
employees and/or the organization
• Using positive & negative consequences to influence behaviors, thereby
eliminating bad behavior
AREAS COVERED
I Human & Financial Costs Resulting from Toxic Employees
Toxic Employees Create:
• Chaos & unnecessary complexity
• Overt damage
• Covert damage
• Strife, stress & emotional damage
• Productivity, quality & financial losses
II. The A, B, C’s Related to Toxic Employees
• Toxic employee attitudes
• Employee behaviors
• Consequences that managers can exert for getting rid of toxic
employees
III. The Psyche of a Toxic Employee
• Frequently seen toxic behaviors
• Utilize ‘star status’ & technical expertise to intimidate
& manipulate
• Chameleon who knows who to flatter & who he/she can abuse to
turn their toxicity on & off depending on the impression they want to make
• Three common forms of toxic behavior
IV. Common Reactions to Toxic Employees That
Frequently Don’t Work
• Restructuring his/her job to accommodate the toxic employee
• Tolerating toxic employees who bring rare expertise or experience
• Not assertively seeking feedback from employees as to whether
there is toxic behavior in the workplace
• Not communicating to all employees the specific behaviors that
will not be tolerated – with associated consequences
V. Effective Approaches for Addressing &
Preventing Toxicity
Organization-wide strategies:
• Making positive interpersonal behavior an organizational value
• Evaluating interpersonal behavior as a part of the performance
appraisal system
• Training leaders in how to manage a toxic employee
• Using behavioral-based interview questions to screen toxic
applicants
• Exit interviewing to identify any toxic behavior in the
workplace
Departmental & team Strategies:
• Defining appropriate interpersonal interactions with behavior-specific
descriptions & standards
• Using team discussions & role plays to clarify the application of
the behavioral descriptions & standards
• Utilizing a 360-degree feedback process to assess the work environment
One-on-one strategies:
• Stating explicitly that the behavior is not acceptable & why
• Describing both the unacceptable & acceptable behavior
• Asking the employee to commit to & describe how he/she will change
his/her behavior
• Frequent, targeted counseling feedback
• Executive coaches
Progressive discipline for dealing with toxic employees
Termination
But even terminations are not a cure-all because the:
• Toxic-enabling people & organizational culture tendencies may
remain
• Employees may still be resentful of the way they were treated by the
employee & the time it took the organization to react
• Expertise & experience of the toxic employee are lost
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Learn
how to manage a toxic employee in the workplace. The webinar discusses the
techniques for dealing with toxic employees, toxic employee attitudes, mistakes
that the management commonly makes and tips for getting rid of toxic employees.
WHO WILL BENEFIT
Anyone
with managerial or leadership responsibility
SPEAKER
Pete Tosh is Founder of The Focus Group,
a management consulting and training firm that assists organizations in
sustaining profitable growth through four core disciplines. He has 25+ years of
professional experience.
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