![]() ![]() They won’t make commitments up front, or own the outcomes at the end. But people without batteries try to avoid responsibility for results. Healthy people take accountability for their actions, and healthy teams require accountability to function and thrive. If you hire people like this, you’ll spend all your time managing marginal producers instead of leading your organization. People without batteries need others to get them started and keep them going. People with batteries included are self-starting and self-directing. There are times when critique, correction, and dissent are good and necessary, but constant cynicism, discontentedness, and grumbling will kill momentum faster than anything. Negativity is to an organization what cancer is to the human body. Gossiping and backbiting undermine the integrity of the team, and drain resources on managing unnecessary relational troubles. Teams succeed because everyone upholds each other. Nobody leading a successful organization has time or energy for that. If need be, they’ll just create and stir up trouble to feel better about themselves. Some people get personal significance from the dramas of life, and it doesn’t matter if it’s real or imaginary. Here are five signs a potential employee will drain your team of precious energy, creativity, and joy: I am willing to help people without batteries, but I am not willing to hire them. I want my people working to grow my business and reach their potential-not wasting energy making up for someone’s character deficit. If they don’t, they just deplete everyone else. I want everyone in my organization to have their own battery pack. Almost every work environment has a couple (or more) people who drain the team members around them. Would I consider hiring him? “No,” I said, remembering Dan’s metaphor. He’s got a lot of problems but could really use a job, she said. Shortly after I listened to this episode, Gail mentioned a person we both know. Some may not like it, but based on a few decades working in both entrepreneurial and corporate settings, I’d say the metaphor is spot-on. Those that are dependent on others for their energy (those without batteries).Those that have their own energy source (those with batteries).Dan said he basically divides everyone into one of two categories: I picked up this metaphor from an episode of Dan Sullivan’s 10XTalk Podcast. If I told you it’s the same with people, what kind would you like to work with: those with or without batteries? Some gadgets come with batteries and some don’t. 5 Signs a Potential Employee Will Drain Your Team of Precious Energy, Creativity, and Joy ![]()
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