HR professionals, you might want to skip this.
I just came across a marketing email with a headline that reads, “Managing Toxic and Other Employees Who Have Attitude Issues.”
Well, that’s quite a surprising topic to propose training on, even for an HR consultant.
Instead, it should be titled, “How to perpetuate a miserable work environment, contribute to high turnover, and hinder business performance by tolerating your worst employees and causing the problem yourself.”
Let’s be clear: You don’t “manage” toxic employees.
You’re either allowing and reinforcing their behavior by tolerating it, or you’re taking the necessary step of terminating them because attitude is a personal choice, and they’re making a detrimental one.
I must admit, I’m taken aback that someone claiming to be an HR professional would develop a course that teaches leaders how to facilitate, embrace, and even create a toxic situation within a company culture.
And all of this cleverly disguised as “training” on how to manage such employees.
Remember, what you manage, you facilitate. What you facilitate, you embrace. And what you embrace, you inevitably attract more of.
That’s the Law of Attraction.
Now, ask yourself, is it truly beneficial to learn how to attract and retain toxic employees?
Absolutely not, and the HR profession should hold itself to a higher standard.