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OFFICE HOURS: Managing Difficult Employees
Susan Dikramanjian
What is a difficult employee? In order to understand how to manage difficult employees, it is important to understand why they are difficult and how can we help support them and the team. It's always going to be easier to control our own actions over the actions of others. What can we do as...
What is a difficult employee? In order to understand how to manage difficult employees, it is important to understand why they are difficult and how can we help support them and the team. It's always going to be easier to control our own actions over the actions of others. What can we do as leaders to help them work more efficiently? Half of the time the answer to the equation lies within us as leaders. Join me as I discuss techniques and strategies to help you better manage the difficult employees on your team.
To prepare for this live Q&A please include the answer to the question: What is a difficult employee to you?
Meet The Speaker
Susan Dikramanjian
Results-oriented Engineering Leader
I am a driven, motivated and result-oriented Engineering Leader. I am focused on creating applications that fuel revenue growth for company stakeholder. I have a successful record in delivering software in a continuous fashion, with high quality, and high profit margin. I build efficient teams and strive to instill in each of my team members a sense of ambition, pride and ownership of the work that we do. I am known for guiding development of next generation platforms that emphasize speed to market, reliability, scalability, availability and integration.
Susan is a part of the mentorship program at PowerToFly. Learn more here.
Q&A
Q&A guidelines-
How do you handle an employee that is not motivated or burnt out?
Posted on 2020-05-28 -
I have managed difficult employees before. However it can be stressful at times. How to you keep your stress regarding this in check?
Posted on 2020-05-28 -
If an employee is on a short-term assignment or contract, how do you decide when it is appropriate to stop investing in coaching changed behaviour, and make the decision to part ways?
Posted on 2020-05-27 -
Is it possible to identify a difficult employee during the interview process?
Posted on 2020-05-27 -
No questions right now. I'm interested in listening as I previously was in the position of leading a team and thought this would be great to hear perspectives and strategies.
Posted on 2020-05-25 -
What if the Difficult employee is a relative of the owner of the company?
Posted on 2020-05-24 -
How do you keep from sinking a ton of time into a difficult employee when you are trying to manage them? What are some effective approaches a manager can use to dig deeper to understand why the...
Posted on 2020-05-06 -
How do you prevent having double standards for how you treat difficult employees and others? When does working with a difficult employee cross the line to having a performance issue?
Posted on 2020-05-05
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