How does working with an underperformer make you feel?

If you haven’t experienced working with an underperformer then you’re either:

1. Extremely lucky
2. Possibly oblivious
3. The underperformer and just don’t realise it!

Many people believe there are a few basic principles in the workplace, and from an employee’s perspective a fundamental expectation is that management will recruit the right people into their respective roles. If they get it wrong then it’s the employees in their team who have to live with the consequences, so it is important for management to recognise how working with an underperformer makes an employee feel.

In a nutshell – exhausted!

We all know that teams are made up of a range of different personalities with different skillsets – that’s the fundamental purpose of a team. A truly effective team member recognises their own preferences, abilities, and personality type, and the skillsets of others. Most of us learn what our preferences are through years of working in a range of both large corporate and SME organisations. There are also personality tests that exist to help people understand what they are, like Myers Briggs or the Belkin personality test.