The Team Habits Approach to Dealing with a Toxic Teammate (@The Humanity Working Podcast)

Spoiler alert: it may be more about your team habits than any specific person.

My interview with Paul Slater on the Humanity Working podcast just published here or you can watch the video below.

Neither of us expected to go there, but we ended up discussing the team habits approach to dealing with toxic teammates. I haven’t written or talked much about that yet, so this is a great primer on how to deal with this scenario.

Here are a few teasers from that section:

1. It’s unusual for your whole team to be toxic, so this is usually a matter of what to do when one person is toxic. That said, if you feel like everyone on your team is toxic, you might need to take a beat because you might be the toxic person.

2. Why getting your manager involved first is likely to backfire, even if they intervene successfully.

3. How working on your belonging and core team habits with the rest of your team can mediate the influence of the toxic person.

I’ll likely write more about this in the future, but listen to the podcast to get a leg up on it today.