This document discusses difficult or "bad apple" employees. It defines a bad apple as a subpar employee who causes an emotional drain on coworkers or negatively impacts performance. Bad apples have behavioral issues that make them incompatible with their jobs. Their issues may be explicit, like tardiness, or implicit and hidden, such as always seeking credit for others' work. The document outlines various types of bad apples, including gossips, backstabbers, and bullies. It stresses that the goal is not to appraise bad apples' productivity but how they influence others. While problems have solutions, changing bad apples' attitudes and work habits can be difficult. The document provides tips for addressing bad apple behaviors through assessment, accountability, direction
19. We all are humans then what makes some of us so difficult that every
other person finds difficult to work with them – BAD APPLES.
Is that difficult people are BAD or something else...
26. Explicit – Visible, identifiable
•Tardiness
•Complete disrespect for Time
•Not following Instructions
•Arrogant and rude
•Argumentativeness
•Lack initiative
•Disinterested and
•Disoriented
27. Implicit – Hidden, not easily
identifiable, extremely difficult to trace
28. Implicit – Hidden, not easily
identifiable, extremely difficult to trace
Always create Good Impression in
presence of superiors but make the lives
of their colleagues miserable in absence
of superiors
30. Implicit – Hidden, not easily
identifiable, extremely difficult to trace
Always highlight the close relationship of
trust and worthiness with their superiors
amongst their colleagues in absence of
superiors
32. Implicit – Hidden, not easily
identifiable, extremely difficult to trace
Always put up a good Upfront but makes
team workers work environment
miserable
34. Implicit – Hidden, not easily
identifiable, extremely difficult to trace
Always try to pass the buck and often
very suggestive in deciding the role and
job to be assigned to their peers
35. Implicit – Hidden, not easily
identifiable, extremely difficult to trace
Always throw their weight around
37. Implicit – Hidden, not easily
identifiable, extremely difficult to trace
Bad Biting
38. Implicit – Hidden, not easily
identifiable, extremely difficult to trace
Seek praises, credits for work done by
others
40. Implicit – Hidden, not easily
identifiable, extremely difficult to trace
Always with Excuses and Justification
41. Implicit – Hidden, not easily
identifiable, extremely difficult to trace
Sneak peek into others work, what they
and what they are not doing
43. Implicit – Hidden, not easily
identifiable, extremely difficult to trace
Above all they are always BUSY
MULTITASKING – Big NO
44. The crux of the problem is not to
appraise personal productivity of
BAD APLLES, but to check how they
influences productivity
of others
45. BAD APPLE behaviour do not
contribute positively to the growth
of the organization, and has
adverse implications on
Overall performance
46. All the employees MUST positively
contribute to the organization
Even one person not contributing
positively can have serious
impact.
47. Any employee who does his/her
job BADLY is obviously a problem,
but the one who DRAGS DOWN
the work of others is
very DANGEROUS and to identify
such person in the organization or
team is tough job.
51. EMOTIONS = Energy in Motion
EMOTIONS = Disturbance (Negative)
PEACEFUL = BALANCED and STABEL ENERGY
FEELINGS = Perception of Touch (Physical/Mental/Spiritual)
FEELINGS = Automatic response / flow, which when gets
blocked by attachments converts to EMOTIONS
FEELINGS = usually Positive
EMOTIONS = normally Negative
EMOTIONS are FELT
Our BEHAVIOUR is governed by our
EMOTIONS
52. Understanding the BAD APPLE
behaviour enables to get CLOSE to
the problem thereby the solution.
56. Behavioural Issues
They don’t like the work environment
They don’t like their co-workers
coThey don’t like their Superiors
57. Behavioural Issues
They don’t like the work environment
They don’t like their co-workers
coThey don’t like their Superiors
They feel neglected – not involved
58. Behavioural Issues
They don’t like the work environment
They don’t like their co-workers
coThey don’t like their Superiors
They feel neglected – not involved
They suffer from skill set
deficiencies, which they try to
match or cover up
59. Behavioural Issues
They don’t like the work environment
They don’t like their co-workers
coThey don’t like their Superiors
They feel neglected – not involved
They suffer from skill set deficiencies,
which they try to match or cover up
They are experiencing personal, health
or family problem
ABOVE ALL…
63. A BAD APPLE is a
SUBPAR EMPLOYEE
who causes an
EMOTIONAL DRAIN on
the people in the team, or
DRAIN RESOURCES, or
NEGATIVELY AFFECTS
the overall
Performance
65. Nobody is perfect and as a
matter of fact perfection is not
expected at all times from
everybody
BUT
what is expected at all times
from everybody is
SOLID DEPENDABLE WORK
149. People either act out their EMOTIONS
By taking ACTIONS to achieve a certain OUTCOME
Or
They have deeply ingrained HABBIT, FRUSTRATION
Beyond their CONTROL
151. FOCUS on the PROBLEM
Why the PROBLEM needs to be RESOLVED?
What can be done for IMPROVEMENTS?
How the person concern thinks (BAD APPLE)?
152. BAD APPLE tendency
To the CHANGE the Topic
To highlight their own concerns
To Emotionally blackmail
To Blame others
To be on the Edge to Dodge and weave
throughout the conversation