Handling A Toxic Employee with Dr. Dave Weiman [RR 713]
How do we handle a toxic employee? How long have we noticed their behavior and never addressed it? Is it hard for owners to let someone go that they hired and thought would be a great fit for the team? Dr. Dave Weiman, psychologist, and owner of Weiman Consulting explain the behavioral background of a toxic employee. Every business owner needs to listen to this episode!
Key Talking Points
- Toxic employees- they know other people will pick up their slack and don’t care. It is almost impossible to change toxic behavior, but you can almost always change the production level on a positive team player employee. Toxic people have excuses for their behavior
- Red flags during hiring- behavioral questions, not following instructions in process. “Tell me about a recent success that you were directly involved in, what happened and why was it successful?” “Can you tell me about a recent professional disappoint and why it didn’t go well?” Do they only give themselves credit for success? Do they blame others for disappointment?
- You risk other employees leaving because you as an owner, are tolerating toxic behavior
- 20% at top of business- follow all the rules, self-motivated. 20% at the bottom- unhappy wherever they are, complain, “problem children,” 60% in middle that can be drawn up or down
- What are people doing outside of work? What do they value?
- “How do you pick the guys that go on Seal Team Six? Because they’re the best of the best of the best.” Graph: On one side (y-axis) is performance. On the other side (x-axis) is trust. A high performance & low trust person is a toxic leader and a toxic team member.
- Coachability- take in feedback and change, are they giving excuses? Are they missing the impact of the behavior? Do they not think they’re the problem?
- Are they motivated to change? Be clear about your values, what are the other employees doing to demonstrate those values?
- It can be hard to let someone go- you picked that person and hired him/her
- Address issues/concerns immediately- learn why it happened, what can WE do to improve this?
Connect with the show:
Dr. David Weiman is the president of Weiman Consulting, a leadership consulting firm in Philadelphia PA. He is also an adjunct Assistant Professor at Widener University’s Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology, and he is a Certified Performance Coach through Johnson & Johnson’s Human Performance Institute. Dr. Weiman has been quoted in BusinessWeek, the Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, Entrepreneur, and many other publications. He has also been a guest on Fox News Philadelphia, Money Matters TV, and numerous podcasts, where he shares insights about the psychology of success, motivation, and more. You can check David’s other episodes HERE.
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