Big Goals Leadership Interview Series

Are you dealing with a toxic person?

Someone who maybe says the right things, but whose behaviour undermines others, and it becomes toxic and damaging to the team and the organisation...?

I interviewed David Gillespie, author of Taming Toxic People and Toxic at Work: Surviving your psychopathic workmates, from the dominant bullies to the charming manipulators, about this very topic: toxic people at work.

Every leader needs to know how to identify a toxic person, and how to deal with one. This interview sheds some much needed light on it.

As leaders, our impact can be significantly diminished when we work with a psychopath or we have one in our team. Listen to the interview and you'll walk away understanding:

Early lead indicators you have a psychopath in your team or organisation
Why Costco worked on the presumption that they were employing psychopaths and designed a capability to deal with that
What to do when you have a psychopath in your team
How to avoid accidentally hiring a psychopath (which is easily done, because they will present as the perfect candidate in an interview)