Leading bad actors to be good performers

Leading Bad Actors To Be Good Performers

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Summary: Leaders are occasionally afflicted by "bad actors", those people who resist and may even sabotage the leaders' activities. Here is a five-step process for dealing with bad actors.

 

 

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A successful leader told me, "The biggest challenge I've had in my career is dealing with bad actors. Brent, do you have tips on how to do it?"

First, before we can deal with "bad actors", we must define the term bad actors. You already have a general idea of what the term means. You know I'm not talking about stage and screen actors but those actors you must deal with in meeting your challenges. A bad actor is a person who is not a part of the solution but is part of the problem. Every leader has to deal with bad actors now and then.

Look at it from the perspective of the 20/40/20 rule. When you have to lead others to meet a particular challenge, roughly about 20 percent of the people will be your ardent cause leaders in getting it done; about 40 percent will be on the fence; and about 20 percent won't do -- or at least won't want to do -- what is required. This 20 percent could be called bad actors.

However, being a bad actor can mean different things to differe

 

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