Someone is Wreaking Havoc at Work

Have you worked with a person who is too valuable to fire but wreaks havoc and damages relationships by the way they communicate? The one that people are always complaining about?

We all know this person. In fact, as soon as you start reading this, I bet someone came into your mind!

Maybe they have expertise that is hard to replace. Or their institutional knowledge of the company would be a big loss. Or there’s a reason why firing them would cause potential legal problems.

So instead of holding this person accountable for their communication, everyone at the company tries to work around them. People ask to be moved off their team. Perhaps people waste time creating workarounds to avoid direct contact. Or maybe you keep losing good people because they don’t want to work with them at all.

Well, guess what? This person, this problem, is the kind of issue that I often am brought in to solve.

And I succeed at solving this issue.

How? Because I understand people like this. Years ago, I was one of them.

What I know is that people like this don’t wake up every morning and say, “What can I do today to make people want to get as far away from me as possible?”

Or: “How many people can I irritate today with my poor communication and lack of self-awareness?”

I have a 3-Step approach.

Step 1: Build trust.

Step 2: Build self-awareness

Step 3: Practicing and applying new learning with my support and coaching.

This is not a fast process. But it is effective.

And how long have you already been dealing with it? If you aren’t going to let them go, what’s a little more time?

You have to remember, the person has been operating this way for years now. It is beyond the point of a little feedback or a performance improvement plan.

If this person is in your organization or on your team, know that you don’t have continue with the headaches, the tension, the workaround’s, or complaints from other team members — because I can help.

Click here to book a time to talk and let’s turn your valuable but challenging colleague into a fully valued colleague!

P.S. And I promise, if during our discussion I think it’s a lost cause, I will tell you.