#163: How to Fire Someone the Right Way and Maintain Team Morale

Business Made Simple with Donald Miller

Business Made Simple

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4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Firing an employee is never easy and can make unwanted waves in your company. The emotional weight and potential fallout can affect your team's spirit and your company's culture, making it one of the tasks business owners hate the most. It's a situation that requires legal due diligence, as well as a good grasp of people's feelings and how an organization works. So how do leaders make sure they're doing it right and respectfully?

In this week’s episode, host Donald Miller explores the best practices for letting an employee go. He’ll show you how firing someone the right way can keep your team’s morale up and avoid creating a negative work environment. You’ll learn a step-by-step approach for identifying when it's time to let someone go, preparing for the conversation, and finding ways to support both the person and the team through the transition. Tune in and get practical tips on how to make these tough decisions and conversations easier!

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0:00.0	I think most of the time when somebody's being fired it's actually a management or a leadership
0:05.1	issue.
0:06.1	Welcome to the Business Made Simple Podcast brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network.
0:12.6	I am your host Donald Miller.
0:14.4	Today we're going to answer more of your questions
0:16.6	as small business owners, and we've chosen a topic that is no fun.
0:21.5	It's all about firing people. How do you do it? Why do you do it? You know, what is the
0:26.3	process of letting somebody go? I've had to do it. I can't stand it. I don't like it.
0:30.4	I don't imagine that you love firing people. I doubt you're the Grinch. But bottom line is, you know, they always say hire,
0:37.3	slow, fire fast. And if you want to build a team, a winning team, you got to address reality, you have to be able to admit things aren't working
0:47.0	and you either move people around, you develop them or you let them go.
0:52.0	Can you imagine a football coach or something in the
0:54.4	NFL or in college football who is afraid to pull the quarterback? That team is
0:59.2	gonna tank and everything's gonna go bankrupt because this person just won't you
1:03.5	know admit reality and let somebody go. The question is you know how do we do it?
1:07.6	So we asked you the listeners for questions as it relates to firing and
1:12.1	processes and all that kind of stuff.
1:14.0	Maybe you could just passive aggressively send them this actual episode
1:18.0	and maybe that's how you do it.
1:19.0	Probably not, it's probably a better way.
1:21.0	We'll talk about that next.
1:29.0	It's February and love is in the air. However, that is not the case if your sales team is in a relationship with the wrong sales platform.
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