Why I Don't Work Here Anymore: A Leader's Guide to Offset the Financial and Emotional Costs of Toxic Employees

ISBN-13: 9781138303263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 124 str.

Mitchell Kusy

Opis

Whether readers lead a team with direct reports or lead project teams with no reporting relationships, Why I Don’t Work Here Anymore will help them apply the most successful approaches for managing these toxic individuals. Each chapter of Why I Don’t Work Here Anymore singles out one main issue and provides associated strategies for resolving it.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Do you work with a toxic person? Are you a toxic person?  Chapter 2: Are the myths about toxic people really true? Chapter 3: Does giving feedback to a toxic individual work? If so, what are the best ways to do this? Chapter 4 : Are you a toxic protector? Are you a toxic buffer? Chapter 5 : Do your hiring practices open a floodgate for toxic people? Do your exiting practices shield out valuable feedback about toxic individuals?  Chapter 6: Does your organization’s performance evaluation process allow toxic people to slide through the cracks? Chapter 7: Do teams excuse toxic behavior? What can they do differently? Chapter 8 : How can you keep your ear to the ground to identify toxic people before their full-blown campaign of destruction?  Chapter 9: What can you do to build a culture of everyday civility that takes power away from toxic people?

O autorze

Dr. Mitchell Kusy has had 25 years’ experience in leadership and organization development. A Registered Organization Development Consultant, he is a full professor in the Graduate School of Leadership & Change at Antioch University—with a worldwide audience of students who are key leaders in their respective organizations. He is a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). In 2005, Dr. Kusy received the international honor of being selected a Fulbright Scholar for international organization development. In 1998, he received the prestigious award as Minnesota Organization Development Practitioner of the Year. Before entering academia, Dr. Kusy worked in industry and directed the leadership development area at American Express Financial Advisors; previous to this he managed organization development for Health Partners. He consults internationally in leadership development, strategic planning, team development, 360-degree feedback, executive coaching, and organization development.