Our top sales producer on the leadership team matches our core values only sixty percent of the time, but they bring in half our revenue. How long do we tolerate this before making a change?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

You cannot tolerate a core values mismatch on your leadership team for even a single day. When you allow a high-performing leader to violate your core values, you send a clear message to the rest of the company that performance is more important than culture. This destroys trust and creates a toxic work environment.

To handle this, you must use the People Analyzer tool. Rate this leader against each of your core values using the plus, plus-minus, and minus system. If they consistently fall below your company bar, you must have a direct, honest conversation.

Give them thirty days to correct their behavior. Provide specific, behavioral examples of where they fell short and what success looks like. For example, if they are violating the value of teamwork by keeping lead data siloed, make sharing that data a non-negotiable metric.

If they do not make a permanent change within thirty days, you must fire them. It does not matter if they bring in half your revenue. The long-term cost of keeping a toxic leader far outweighs the temporary revenue loss.

Your team is watching how you handle your top performers. Removing a highly productive but culturally misaligned leader will actually boost the morale and productivity of the rest of your staff, and they will step up to fill the revenue gap.