Managing “Bad Employees” in 2023
Pamela ?? Mumm
Activating Talent at Every Level, Driving Collecting Success and Growing the Business
I’m sure you’ve been seeing all the messages about New Year, New You!?Woohoo!
Super exciting, and hope provoking, until you realize that the same “bad employees” from 2022 are coming to work in 2023 and you’re the person in charge of correcting the situation.?
The key is to create an Adult-to-Adult dynamic relationship.
Let me explain, and tell on myself, with a quick story:
I’m the Director of a group and I noticed myself becoming increasingly frustrated with 1 particular group member.?I’ll call him Chad.?
The group has lofty goals and as I’m preparing different ways to improve the foundational skills, Chad consistently resisted. ?Chad has been with the group longer than me, he has more experience than me, he is older than me and he will turn his body away from me and look anywhere except at me.?He will interrupt me when I’m talking and he’ll walk out when he doesn’t like the technique I’m teaching.?
He’s a real pain in the back side!
As you’re reading this,?someone you’ve worked with may be coming mind.
There are millions of Chad’s in the world, they may have different names, but they are people who resist getting better.?They resist improving their performance which is mind boggling since they’re not performing very well. ?
One of the fundamental principle of the Harmonic Performance Academy is Complete Ownership!?Which meant, the first step toward a better resolution was to look at my own contribution. ?
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As I created my Ownership List, I remembered the Emerson quote “Where your focus goes, your energy flows” and I realized by being focused on Chad, I had overlooked the 20 other people who were energized by the improvements, embraced the process and were excited about the future. ?
When I was the “victim of Chad”, I looked for all of his short-comings, gave it focused energy and the problem got bigger and bigger.?I had unplugged from what I truly desired, a high functioning, healthy, collaborative team and instead fallen into the trap of seeing Chad as a child.
I was judging his behaviors as a temper tantrum, taking his toys and going home, kicking and screaming when he didn’t like what was going on.?
Unfortunately, by seeing Chad as a child, I set myself up to act like a parent, which is a terrible working dynamic.?
When we are able to own our contribution and maintain an Adult-to-Adult relationship, the next steps become clear.?
If you have a “bad employee” on your team, write out your My Ownership List:
When you own your part, you become empowered to take the next step, which is what we’ll look at next week.
Working with 20 years of experience, attacking a blank canvas!
1 年It is a challenge to stay positive when you have someone that you perceive as weighing down your efforts. It is easy to play the blame game, and having a pitty party, but your right if you put your efforts into negitivity your going to create more negitivity. great challenge is to write down not only your own inventory, but a few things that "chad" brings to the table. Even at first its only as small as him physically bring himself to the table. It will create positivity, won't solve your problem but will allow space to create possible solutions! lifes to short to be frustrated with your CHAD!