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Toxic people, like their chemical counterparts, harm everything they touch.  They take various shapes and forms in the workplace; they target direct reports, people in certain jobs or who specific responsibilities or even more frighteningly, target a specific gender, age or race.  How do you deal with damaging personalities, especially those who are adept at staying a hairs breadth away from a documentable performance problem?  Or more frequently, toxic staff who have friends in higher places who make sure that they are protected from termination.

Come prepared to discuss the following:

• What are the different types and nature of toxicity that you have witnessed?

• What actions have you taken to successfully correct toxic behavior?

• What have you tried that did not work?

• Are their programs or processes HR professionals can put in place to limit the effects of toxic behavior?Or better yet, prevent it from starting in the first place?

Our facilitator for this discussion is Alice Waagen, Ph.D.

Alice is President of Workforce Learning LLC, a leadership development company that since 1997 has provided executives with the skills and knowledge they need to build positive and productive businesses.

Dr. Waagen has a passion for working with leaders to identify their successful leadership practices as well as to grow their knowledge and skills to increase their impact on the business.  Alice consults with leadership teams to coach them into building better internal partnerships to achieve results.  Alice has a proven process to build skills through observation, experimentation and feedback resulting in more confident and credible leaders.