How do you handle it when external parties (family, friends) influence your team members in unproductive ways?

Our reader poll today asks: How do you handle it when external parties (family, friends) influence your team members in unproductive ways?

I focus on their performance and ignore those external influencers 28.68%I offer my concerns that those parties are having unproductive influence 27.97%I tell them to stop listening to those parties and explain there will be consequences 4.19%I seek to understand those parties’ concerns and alleviate them 39.16%

Understand External Influences.

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