How do you deal with “steamrollers” on your team?

Our reader poll today asks: How do you deal with “steamrollers” on your team?

– I coach them to be more sensitive: 68%
– I leave them alone — they’re getting great results: 9%
– I change their roles so they have fewer difficult interactions: 20%
– I send them to a different team: 3%

Slowing down the Steamrollers. It’s hard to have a difficult conversation with a Steamroller because many times they’re turning out solid results. Tackle the issue head-on instead of avoiding it by changing their roles. They’re never going to drop the rough behaviors if they’re not coached on doing so. Don’t pass a problem along to someone else. Give the person the coaching they need to continue delivering great results without stepping on so many toes along the way.

Do you agree with these poll results? Let us know in the comments below!

– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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These results were originally a SmartPulse poll in SmartBrief on Leadership which tracks feedback from more than 200,000 business leaders. Get smarter on leadership and sign up for the SmartBrief on Leadership e-newsletter.

Sheila Johnson says:

April 1, 2016 at 12:05 pm

I am a steamroller and I have had to tame it down. In doing so, my creativity and burning desire to do the right thing are harder to come by. The two don’t seem to go hand in hand very well and I am dying on the vine here, trying to fit in. As a result, the things that I can see that need to get done and CAN get done in a few weeks, are not done 1.5 years later. I hear complaints day after day, but because it is like moving a mountain to get things done the politically right way, we lose a lot of time. However, because there is no room for steamrollers here, I need to stop thinking about it and do the best I can within the box I am in.