Toxic behavior damages mental and physical health, kills collaboration and productivity, and spreads through an organization when leaders tolerate it. A high performer who is toxic still poisons the team around them. Leaders who ignore it signal that this behavior is acceptable.
It's extreme destruction on people's mental and physical and spiritual health, emotional health, on their stress level, on their engagement and collaboration and teaming with each other, on their productivity and their efficiency and their effectiveness. You know, every metric you're wanting as a leader to tick up, an individual with toxic behavior is ticking down. Now, you might say to yourself, because this is what I was told all the time, yes, but they're a massive contributor, they're a massive producer, they're a profit generator, they're a sales generator, and so I can look the other way when it comes to how they go about doing it. No, you can't. No, you can't. That's all I'm going to say. Because what you're not seeing is all of that degradation that I just mentioned. To the people around them, the people that have to take their lead, it's not gonna happen. Now I wanna touch on why you should care. Well, one is you're then enabling and accepting and modeling to other people that that behavior is acceptable. And therefore, if someone else chooses to start projecting those same traits and qualities, or even a few of them, that's okay.
From Stuck to Leading, Episode 2 — Meet the 5 Inner Fears Destroying Your Leadership
