MANAGING PEOPLE & TEAMS
I’ve Got a Lazy Employee, What Do I do?
Lazy Employees are a Telling Sign: is it you, or is it the company?
Humans are especially fragile beings and hard work can easily wear us down. That’s why we are prone to breaking down and being less productive as we countdown to the end of work. Yet, as a leader, you want your teams to be fully productive—even if you aren’t. Definitely, in an ideal world, everyone in the organization stays productive for the whole 8 hours (the average number of hours in a workday).
Especially at crunch periods, you want your team to more focused than before. However, many leaders and managers would know that there is usually one or two employees who are not performing as good as the others. It is not about the level of skill or about the amount of experience, it is about commitment. As blunt as the term may be, it is simply a case of classic laziness and it stems from many different causes.
Employee Productivity is not Engagement, but are Closely Related
Like a broken record, in many of the articles on this publication, employee engagement is something that you need to strongly emphasize and drive in your organization. As a leader, it is imperative of you to…
