Dealing with Difficult Employees: Top Strategies for Managers

[@LeadershipwithMike]

☠️ Dealing with a TOXIC work environment www.mikeashie.com/pl/2147680435

[@SenorPhillips]

Its horrible when a good boss gets treated poorly

[@davids-c1f]

You will have to deal with my extreme difficulties forever after forcing experimental medical procedures onto me in 2021. Disengaged forever, never forgiving, never forgetting, and the hate lasts forever. You reap what you sow.

[@LeadershipwithMike]

WTF?

[@fnkdrmr86]

How do you deal union represented employees that refuse to do their job?

[@tylrkozelisky6252]

99% of the time these issues arise do to poor management not employees themselves. And unfortunately 99% of managers are piss poor at leading people. GREAT at managing but terrible leaders. Then again it’s not that hard to be a good manager.

[@judep4372]

So share some tips on being a good leader! Give solutions not problems!

[@tylrkozelisky6252]

@@judep4372 firstly stop blaming individuals for company problems. Hell stop blaming individual teams for company problems. As a leader you are meant to act as a line of defense towards the higher ups who couldn’t give 2 shits about their workers as a whole. And empathy empathy empathy. Some will say oh well I tried really hard with this employee and he just wasn’t up to snuff, NO! It’s not true, you simply aren’t interested in helping that person or finding a compromise. You gave up is what I’m saying, you’re weak, because you’re a manager, not a leader. Empathy is honestly the biggest thing to be honest. That and stop being a corporate shill but that correlates with the whole empathy thing.

[@sandycooper1297]

What about colleagues who won’t reply to emails

[@LeadershipwithMike]

Cc the boss 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@LeadershipwithMike]

It’s a little bit of a bitch move but if you don’t care or are fed up with the behavior then why not

[@pannochka11]

What if it's the opposite? The employee provides a concern and solution to make the processes more efficient and the manager brushes it off leaving the processes less efficient and wasting the employees times o issues that could have been easily fixed.

[@LeadershipwithMike]

Then the manager is acting foolish.

[@pannochka11]

@@LeadershipwithMike what to do if you like the job but the processes and management are draining you...?

[@ohitsujifire]

…and what if a manager finds one or more of their staff to be difficult, uncommunicative, and/or uncooperative, but the manager is a bully. The employee is likely doing their best but is uncomfortable speaking up and sharing because this manager is a liar, is suspicious and treats people with contempt, is dismissive of ideas and suggestions especially by those who that aren’t one of their favorites, uses personal information as ammo if gets them what they want, every minor insignificant decision has to be run through them. The manager makes passive aggressive comments and sneaks around and spies on anyone they feel has slighted them, makes a mistake and/or displays any sense of humanity and/or independence.

[@chalo4792]

Its because of the lousy management. But its never the incompetent manager's fault.

[@wilfbreezy333]

Not always. Some employees just don’t wanna listen lol

[@tylrkozelisky6252]

@@wilfbreezy333 why do you think that is you think.

[@East_Owl]

I fired, who I thought at the time was my top guy, last Friday. We instituted a performance software to track baseline metrics. At first we graded lightly as we rolled it out. Grading progressively got harder over the 2 week cycles. What we found was that some people embraced it as coaching while others disregarded the new program. My “top guy” would always say “I’ll make an effort to …” on everything but never did! He called out sick so I had to go out and cover his shift and came to find out that he wasn’t even doing his job at that location. I went to a few other recent jobs and found the same situation. He came back and completed one last job that I followed up on the same day of completion and the same thing! Job was not complete! We let him go after declining baseline metrics and failing to do the job he was there to do. A shock to the whole team as everyone considered him the front runner.

[@LeadershipwithMike]

Wow. This shows that some people are great at the talking game. But data will show!

[@qasim5279]

How was he considered a "front runner" when nothing was getting done? Doesn't make any sense

[@judep4372]

I had a top guy like that who knew how to BS me at my last position. I wish I fired him before I left.

[@maddiej5131]

What if they’re noncompliant and create chaos and more work for others but their numbers are on point?

[@LeadershipwithMike]

You need to make a choice. They run things or you do?!?