CNLP 658 | Spotting Toxic People In Your Organization: Six Subtle Signs Leaders Miss
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Every organization and every church has them: toxic people. But how do you spot them? In this teaching, Carey Nieuwhof covers six subtle signs leaders miss. Carey outlines exactly what you need to do to make sure you limit the impact of toxic people in your church and shows you what you need to do to stack your team with healthy leaders.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Toxicity and its Impact (00:00:04)
Introduction to Toxic People (00:01:02)
Recognizing Toxic Behavior (00:02:51)
Metaphor of Toxicity (00:04:53)
The Leader's Role in Addressing Toxicity (00:06:49)
Obvious Signs of Toxic Behavior (00:07:50)
Subtle Signs of Toxic Behavior (00:08:55)
Reciprocity and Dominance in Relationships (00:11:05)
Seeking Attention and Hijacking Conversations (00:13:27)
Early Engagement and Frequent Communication (00:14:30)
The signs of toxic behavior (00:16:20)
Types of people: Wise, foolish, and evil (00:19:12)
Dealing with foolish behavior (00:23:19)
Handling evil people (00:25:33)
Stacking the organization with wise people (00:27:36)
Creating a healthy culture (00:28:47)
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.0 | First, I am guessing that toxic behavior and patterns has already cost you something significant. |
| 0:11.0 | I mean, maybe you trust it in someone someone in leadership ended up being a disaster, or you had some small groups go rogue, or you've got factions and divisions in your church that simply aren't healthy so if you allow toxic |
| 0:24.8 | behavior to continue it's going to cost you and it probably already has cost you. |
| 0:28.8 | That's the kind of thing that honestly for me it makes me lose sleep and it makes you question how much longer you can do this and it makes leadership |
| 0:37.2 | so much harder than it needs to be. So the question becomes what do you do about it? I want to go deep with you. |
| 0:48.8 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. I'm so glad to have you join us and hey we are continuing with an |
| 0:54.7 | experiment experimental format on the podcast it's a solo episode just me no |
| 1:00.4 | guests I'm going to be talking directly to you. |
| 1:02.6 | In these episodes, these solo ones, are going to be shorter than most, |
| 1:06.4 | under 30 minutes, sometimes even a little bit shorter than that. |
| 1:10.1 | And as usual, hope it helps you thrive in life and leadership. |
| 1:13.6 | So today, I'm going to be talking about toxic people. |
| 1:18.2 | I want to help you spot a toxic person, and I want to help you figure out how to |
| 1:22.4 | eliminate their impact on your mission. |
| 1:25.0 | I mean there are obvious signs that somebody is toxic, but after decades in leadership, particularly in church leadership, |
| 1:31.0 | I think there are more subtle signs and in the early days I |
| 1:34.0 | missed them and it cost us a lot. And you know this I mean if you end up with |
| 1:39.4 | toxicity in your |
| 1:43.0 | business, it can be a real challenge to eliminate it. And then on top of that, you got to recover from it. |
| 1:46.0 | It's a mess, okay? |
| 1:48.0 | So we're going to dive into the content in just a second. |
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