How to address employee Hygiene

and Annoying Habits

Effective Communication Skills

METIOM 18/10/2013

Welcome to the Workplace

Effective Communication Skills

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Flow of Presentation

• Various Hygiene & Annoying Habits

• How to tackle Hygiene & Annoying Habits

• Dealing with the outcomes

• Achieving a resolution

• ConclusionHygiene and Annoying

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Various Hygiene and Annoying Habits

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Reporting to work without bathing

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Refusing to flush

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Digging their noses

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Hygiene and Annoying Habits (contd…)

Coming to work when sick

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Untidy desks

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Taking smoke/coffee breaks

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Reporting to work late every single

day / bunking often

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Loud talking

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Interrupting

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Gossiping

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Offering unwanted advice

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Getting drunk at office parties

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• People asking personal questions

• Useless incompetent bosses

• Treating meetings as work

• Being rude, impolite and arrogant

• Releasing bas gas with loud noise

• Groupism

• Pinching your stationery

• Incessant Flirting

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And Many More…

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How to tackle Hygiene and Annoying Habits

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Start with a soft approach to set the employee at ease

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How to tackle Hygiene and Annoying Habits (contd…)

Tell the employee directly what the problem is as you perceive it

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How to tackle Hygiene and Annoying Habits (contd…)

Let the employee know that not only is the behavior affecting the business and the employee's coworkers, it is

affecting the employee's career

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How to tackle Hygiene and Annoying Habits (contd…)

Whenever possible, attach the feedback to a business issue

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How to tackle Hygiene and Annoying Habits (contd…)

Training whole staff is not an appropriate solution

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How to tackle Hygiene and Annoying Habits (contd…)

Be sensitive to the fact that different cultures have different norms and

standards

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How to tackle Hygiene and Annoying Habits (contd…)

Be sensitive to the difference in cooking and eating traditions, too

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How to tackle Hygiene and Annoying Habits (contd…)

Suggest the employee to see a physician, if he / she tried to correct,

and is not making progress

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Dealing with the outcomes

• Listen carefully to the employee’s response to the

matter

• Neither criticizing nor threatening your employee

• Offer support where needed

• Make sure he understands that your are concerned

for him more than work performance

• Follow up with the employee at regular intervals

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Achieving a resolution

• The meeting should end with an agreement by the

employee to seek a solution to the problem

• Stress that improvement in behavior is important

• Remember to keep the issue private

• Discourage any negative feedback to the employee

from co-workers

• Monitor the progress and review at regular

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Conclusion

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Presented by

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Naved , 61 Gurudev , 62

John , 63

Danish , 80Ashish , 74 Rashmi , 103

“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”

-Benjamin Franklin

Thank You