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Top 3 behavioral triggers that can impact your organisation in a negative way

Are you a team lead/manager or a business owner? Do you feel your team needs to work upon their behavior and response towards you, their colleagues or the organization? Then this article is for you.

I’m sure you would have come across different kind of employees- Performers, Average Performers and Non-Performers. While it’s easy to point out issues with performance and track productivity it’s quite difficult to point out poor attitude reflecting in behavior and impacting overall productivity or performance.

Before we start talking about the different types behavioral triggers that can impact your organisation, it’s imperative to think over this fact that most of the employees join any organization with a positive attitude and are open to learn and develop themselves. As they grow in tenure, the level of excitement, responses and zeal slows down unless they are enjoying and connected to what they do. This is where you as a manager or business owner steps in. Also, if the office culture doesn’t have effective employee engagement activities in all possibilities the employees tend to feel stagnated. A strong HR engagement system and manager’s culture development and constant interaction and accountability can take care of most of the behavioral problems.

It is the day on day behavior of the employees that will make you understand their state of mind and how connected the employee is to the organization. You will get to know only if you are in regular touch with them through meetings, 1-1s, email or any other channel of communication.

If you have heard, felt or have been noticing poor employee behavior, here is a list of top three triggers you might need to watch out for:

1- Behaviour towards the Organization

• Questioning Policies (Creating roadblocks instead of trying to understand)
• Defaming the organization
• Not open to changes by the organization

2- Behaviour towards the Manager/HR

• Refusing work or task assigned by the team leader (unless an emergency)
• Disinterested or disengaged body language during internal/external meetings and 1-1s
• Challenging and influencing other team members against the team leads or the organization

3- Behaviour towards Colleagues

• Disrespect towards team members or harassment in any form
• Using slangs at work
• Refusing help or creating roadblocks for others or backing out last minute

Though here you find the behavioral triggers in different categories, you might see an employee’s poor behavior impact each of these categories. All the above mentioned points hamper productivity of the employee as well as spoil the speed, relationship and efficiency of the team and the organization and have a direct impact on the organizational culture.

It is always advisable to look for trends and not just take up isolated incidents. If you have been noticing any of the behavioral patterns continuously, it’s time to call out for a discussion. Remember no reaction or response to ill behavior means acceptance of it.

I would love to know if you could relate to this article and the triggers mentioned above. I plan to share some tried and tested ways to encounter these issues in the next article.

Thank you for stopping by and reading 🙂