{"id":1498,"date":"2013-02-25T02:04:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T07:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2013-02-25T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:54:32","slug":"spotting-the-me-complex-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2013\/02\/25\/spotting-the-me-complex-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotting the \u201cMe\u201d Complex in the Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever met a person that only talks about what they have achieved? It was their ideas and their motivation that made the sale, saved the money or made the company a better place. Everything is an over bloated story about themselves; I refer to this behavior as the \u201cme\u201d complex.<\/p>\n<p>Spotting the \u201cMe\u201d complex and how it damages your workplace:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Overestimating their abilities<\/strong> \u2013 You hired someone based on their ability, if that ability is short of what you need, you may have to take extra time to train or rehire.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not a teammate<\/strong> \u2013 They cannot cooperate with others on projects and you have to deal with the fallout or pick up the slack.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Delusions of superiority<\/strong> \u2013 Everyone works for them, including you. They may even use others ideas as their own and take it to another company that can offer them more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What others can do for \u201cme<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 This person is only interested in what you can do for them and not what they can do for your company.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Criticism of former colleagues to show superiority<\/strong> \u2013 Just imagine what they may be saying about you and your company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you recognize these traits in one of your staff members, it\u2019s best to have a meeting sooner rather than later. If they can be redirected down a better path the whole company will benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever met a person that only talks about what they have achieved? It was their ideas and their motivation that made the sale, saved the money or made the company a better place. Everything is an over bloated story about themselves; I refer to this behavior as the \u201cme\u201d complex.<\/p>\n<p>Spotting the \u201cMe\u201d complex and how it damages your workplace:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Overestimating their abilities<\/strong> \u2013 You hired someone based on their ability, if that ability is short of what you need, you may have to take extra time to train or rehire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employee-management","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}