Several weeks ago, I wrote a missive pertaining to the need to get rid of toxic employees. Clear Out The Rot. The message bears repeating. I know this because more and more often, I find myself having to ask a simple question…
It’s a question I ask after a client goes into a long monologue detailing a particular employee’s poor performance in spite of extensive coaching, training, and oversight. Sometimes I ask it when I’m standing before the entire leadership team of an organization and we’re capturing issues on a whiteboard preparing to solve them…forever. A name gets picked as the issue to solve and the leadership team members can’t help themselves. They all join in with horror stories about this problematic employee, “Fred.”
