The social butterfly. How to deal with challenging employees. Part 4/4

Negative employees create a culture of conflict. Nobody stays without harm. This negative attitude has an impact on culture, motivation, effort and eventually the result. Negative employees are a high risk as well. Complaints about their behavior lead to unacceptable behavior when addressed incorrectly. You may close your eyes for challenging employees having a negative impact on your business. The results however will keep notes. Confrontation with customers will make these ambassadors become adversaries when it comes to professionalism and market penetration.

It is definitely not a walk in the park to confront employees with their unwanted behavior, but by providing feedback quickly after the behavior occurred you prevent the impact from becoming an pain in neck.

Let us take a look at the 4 most common types of difficult employees and how to deal with them.

The most common effects of negative employees:
1. Lower employee satisfaction.
2. Lower productivity.
3. Negative effects on the productivity of colleagues.
4. Loss of customers.
5. Juridical liability.

4. The social butterfly.

Have you ever had a colleague who thought that every workday needed to be a party? Even in the middle of the day? These colleagues have a talent of talking about anything all day. Even if it is not the right time, context, place…