We are here with another tip from the area of building successful teams ...... or should we say from the area of dismantling/dismantling successful teams.
Do you know who is holding your company back?
What are the risk indicators that alert you to that person? What we observed is that we have ten real manifestations of a real person in this category where the person starts to stop and slow down those around them.
We have 10 signs to share with you that will help you recognise them.
A "slow-downer", someone who undermines and sabotages, a covertly hostile person, snake, hidden enemy: these are all expressions that describe a person who dismantles a company / dismantles from within.
It is difficult to find such a person because he/she can hide very cleverly. The higher his IQ is, the better he can complicate everything around him.
It is then difficult to untangle a tangle of confusing information that spreads through the company.
Strangely enough, when this person is discovered and quickly removed from the company, everything suddenly calms down, the atmosphere in the company improves a lot and people feel as if a heavy rock has been removed from their heart.
In addition, the company starts to achieve better results.
Here are 10 signs of a person who is creating a blockage in your team.
1. They flatter their boss and know exactly what to say to make things look good, but behind their back they slander, ridicule and criticise the boss's decisions and actions.
2. They do the same with an HR manager and in general with those who want to work with people and build a good company culture.
3. They consider HR to be completely useless. According to them, someone who is in HR is someone who just "plays at work all day".
4. You hear them complaining about your work and when you ask them directly, they tell you that everything is fine.
5. They complain about their colleagues in a very general way, such as "she is difficult to work with", "I can't trust him" or "during meetings he brainwashes us all".
But when you ask them what exactly they mean by that comment, you won't get much out of them.
6. They present other people's work as their own.
7. They constantly change information, tasks, everything is different several times during the week. If you confront them with this, they will definitely deny it.
8. Their team is often not in a good mood or people are afraid to speak up and it is difficult to find a partner who will tolerate and put up with it.
Your team is usually in tune with the management, the owner and the HR manager, but they won't tell you directly.
9. They make themselves absolutely indispensable to the company and, moreover, many of their colleagues feel the same way.
Others think that this person is simply the greatest expert, the best employee. They show how much work they do, but do not let others see it. They do not want to delegate their activities to others.
10. Around this person you find a lot of unfinished work, a lot of thoughts, ideas, tasks they are working on - simply a lot of unfinished things and very few completed. When you ask them what they are working on, they are often overwhelmed with work and have no time. And when you want to know exactly what it is, they divert the conversation to something else, or have nothing tangible and visible to substantiate it.
Do you find anyone specific to these points?
Watch very closely what is going on around this person and follow their production very closely.
If you hear what they are saying, think about why they are saying it and how it is really helping.
Is the information they are giving helping the company to do better, or is this person bringing some of their colleagues into disrepute and making it harder for you to achieve some of your objectives?
Removing this person is a really difficult decision, but the relief it brings is hard to put into words.
If you suspect someone, but you are not sure, of course we can help you with that, just give us a call. Unfortunately, we have detected a large number of such people in companies.
Our wish is that such people never enter your company.
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