Managing A Talented But Difficult Employee

Claire Mould 
Instructor: Claire Mould 
Date: Tuesday April 21, 2026
Time:

10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

Duration: 60 Minutes
Webinar Id: 25865

Price Details

Live Webinar
$150. One Attendee
$290. Unlimited Attendees
Recorded Webinar
$190. One Attendee
$390. Unlimited Attendees
Combo Offers   (Live + Recorded)
$289 $340   One Attendee
$599 $680   Unlimited Attendees

Unlimited Attendees: Any number of participants

Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months (Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)

Overview:

This webinar will discuss the need to directly manage employees who are both talented and difficult requires a combination of clear communication, defined expectations, and strategic problem-solving.

Participants will learn to identify the primary factors such as stress, perfectionism, ineffective communication, or disengagement that need to be resolved to appropriately address this issue. They will enhance their ability to balance the valuable contributions these talented individuals make against the potential negative effects their behaviour may have on team morale and productivity.

By the end of the webinar participants will be able to maintain a work environment that retains expertise while supporting effective teamwork call and addresses behavioural concerns without denting professional contributions.

This will result in leaders managing these cases with professionalism and objectivity, maintaining an efficient work environment, supporting the consistent development of all employees. 

Why you should Attend:

  • Implement strategies for managing talented but difficult employees
  • Not take these behaviours personally
  • Set clear expectations from the beginning regarding work, behaviour, and team interactions
  • Acknowledge the talent that these difficult employees bring
  • Be consistent with feedback
  • Have regular check-ins

Areas Covered in the Session:

  • Strategies for managing talented but difficult employees 
  • Setting clear expectations
  • Acknowledging talent
  • Delivering consistent feedback
  • Monitoring regularly
  • Developing employees
  • Understanding the root cause of negative behaviour
  • Knowing when it's time to let them go 

Who Will Benefit:

  • This webinar will benefit existing leaders / managers, as well as those new or aspiring to a management role, who want to achieve greater success by enhancing their leadership skills through effectively managing talented but difficult employees

Speaker Profile
Claire Mould the founder of Curve Strategic Ltd, is a highly experienced international consultant, mentor, trainer and presenter. Following a successful academic career as a post-doctoral Senior Research Fellow, lecturer, and author in the field of neuroscience and effective leadership she launched her own training and development company, before spending over fifteen years as a CEO of a multimillion pound turnover organisation.

Claire then founded Curve Strategic, a company that supports organisations to identify and embed strategic solutions, focusing on the integral importance of policy, process, and practice. Underpinned by emotionally intelligent leadership and organisational growth, that result in effective recruitment and positive retention

Underpinning Claire’s career has been her passion to work with individuals and organisations to facilitate their growth potential in an accessible, non – threatening, compassionate yet strategic way. She has an expertise in providing highly strategic, analytical, emotionally intelligent solutions that generate, inform, facilitate and embed individual and organisational growth. Increasing productivity and profitability through clarity, coherence, connectivity, communication and compassion.

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