6 types of toxic teammates and how to deal with their destructive behaviour

We know about those bad bosses. But now it’s time to talk about toxic teammates.

Spending 40+ hours a week with someone you just ‘don’t vibe with’ is bad enough. But hey, nobody is perfect. And who knows? They might not feel particularly excited about seeing your face first thing Monday morning. 

That’s ok. We can’t be best work buddies within the entire office. 

But when the person you dread meeting by the water cooler is a toxic teammate, you need to do something about it. 

Toxic behaviour is super destructive, personally and professionally. It drains our physical and emotional energy, chips away at our self-confidence, and creates a permanent state of low-level anxiety that makes it impossible to perform to our full potential.

So how do you manage these terrible teammates?

How do you know if a co-worker is a toxic person, rather than just the office ‘jerk’?

Should you rise above toxic behaviour or confront it?

This latest infographic from Brother.co.uk has the advice you need. 

Based on research from Harvard Business School and leading psychologists, the infographic explains the dangers of toxic behaviour in the workplace and how to identify it

Then it’s time to deal with the problem

So Brother.co.uk created six in-depth profiles on the most common types of toxic co-workers, along with a step-by-step guide on how to deal with these destructive personalities.

It shows you how to spot and nullify the,

• The horrible workplace bully
• The super-annoying micromanager 
• The sneaky manipulator
• The flatterer (aka, the office ‘suck-up.’)
• The workplace gossip
• And the slacker who never feels guilty watching you do their work.

We spend too much time at work to be unhappy about it. And we let too many toxic behaviours slide. It’s time to call out those terrible teammates. 

Why should they define how we feel?

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