How To Handle Team Members with Bad Attitudes - 6 Tried & Tested Steps

How to handle team members with bad attitudes? Disruptive team members are a problem we have all faced either when managing a team or working in a team. Other team member’s bad attitudes can quickly affect your attitude and performance and the team’s attitude and performance. Dealing with negative employees is energy draining at the best of times for those around them.

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Learn six tried and tested steps for how to manage disruptive employees successfully. The most important step when thinking about how to handle employees with bad attitudes is not to ignore the problem. It rarely goes away and usually gets worse if ignored.

Plus the rest of your team will start picking up the same bad behaviour or habits. You must take action.

Employees with bad attitudes can come about for a wide range of reasons. These reasons might be related to the working environment, colleagues or management or they may be a result of issues outside of work. Find out why the bad attitude has started before doing anything else.

The next step when planning how to handle employees with bad attitudes is to work out what the best plan of action would be. This very much depends on the situation and the person.

Dealing with negative employees is a lot easier once you have set out your expectations for their behaviour. Put your expectations in writing and be clear with the negative employee what is acceptable and what is not.

Then support the individual to improve their attitudes or if they can’t or won’t change their bad attitude, move them out of your team and company.

00:00 Intro
01:47 Do not ignore the problem
03:26 Find out The Why
05:18 Temporary or Permanent?
06:33 The Best Course Of Action
07:46 Set Expectations
09:42 Make The Change Happen
11:06 In Summary

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comments section below and I will get back to you.
Jess

[DAClub-ufbr]

I have had a bad attitude for years but i keep it to myself. It shows itself by me not participating in things like team building exercises, DEI and other wastes of time.

[teamworthless]

For me the person with the bad attitude is always the Boss...

[SuperYellowsubmarin]

I appreciate this. More realistic than leadership random talks that rarely address situations where there's a large difference in mindset

[Fahim_Lalani]

thanks 🙏 for these positive tips friend ❤

[jesseskellington]

You have a PDF of bad attitude tracking formatting?

[BuzzByte]

I need advice on how to handle coworkers who refuse to get along. Both are holding grudges. Both refuse to work together. If I grant a schedule change- it will be as if their behavior is okay.

[harshlala]

Why does he have a bad attitude - personal problems, technical challenges, negative thinking, no appreciation or not reward over the year

[mspence]

What if the person is a leader on your team? And the one who hired you? And their expertise is needed? 😢

[ZoubaierAouadi]

Great advices but what if he is not seeing you as the leader ? and tells you in many occasion (in private so far) that you dont have experience to manage team (including him) while not listening to you in first place in order to come up with such conclusion ?

[davefantarrow]

What if you don't have a bad attitude but are portrayed as doing so at any given opportunity because it suits a scapegoating blame culture? If management keep getting rid of staff is theres a chance they are the problem creating the toxic culture.

[FNDMA]

What if i am reporting and my manager completely ignores?

[sweetiemageetie]

What if you have a bad attitude but you do an amazing job? Can there be a place for a person that wants to be left alone?

[amladubai]

What if they just don’t like to work there but they want salary

[DayanaDeHabana]

My boss thought i had an additude with her when I don't feel I did... She didn't tell me anything about how she felt and went straight to writing me up. Apparently she claims its b rn like thiw for two weeks. I'm trying to understand why she feels that way. The only thing i can do think of is im just more serious but I'm going through something personal and I know I didn't take it out on anymore but im not going to be happy happy about everything I do.

[steverogers]

The script is very random I got confused what it is trying to communicate

[ddooodddoo]

What if you bring an employee bad attitude to the manager and still refuse to do anything

[harshlala]

Do private meeting - hear more and say less.

If this is temporary than its fine but if permanent then escalate it to senior
They need change

[carpenoctem]

Here’s a tip. More places should stop hiring people with criminal records. People like that usually make the worst employees anyway. All they do is cause drama.

[vt]

Won't work with a colleague who is more senior in the hierarchy. I don't waste my energy on this because I frequently get tired of people. For example. My senior colleague has been there 20 years, not hope I would involve myself. Their culture is from Nigeria so yelling is just an innate behaviour and there are healthcare practitioners that are a pain to deal with. Excessive complaining is a downer

[josemorales-txqp]

no dont speak to manager talk to the person yourself give him praise for sometging good he is doing