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Help Wanted

How to Fire Someone — or End Any Project — With Respect and Kindness

Help Wanted

Money News Network

Self-improvement, Education, Business

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

You want to end something. But you’re not sure how to tell people. You don’t want to disappoint anyone. You don't want to say the wrong thing… but you do have to say something. Today, Jason will teach you a four-part formula to effectively and compassionately communicate the end of something. All investing involves the risk of loss, including loss of principal. Brokerage services for US-listed, registered securities, options and bonds in a self-directed account are offered by Open to the Public Investing, member FINRA & SIPC. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank. Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1890144), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. Treasury accounts offering 6 months T-Bills are offered by Jiko Securities, Inc.,member FINRA & SIPC. Securities in your account are protected up to $500,000. For details: www.sipc.org. Banking services and the Bank Accounts are provided by Jiko Bank, a division of Mid- Central National Bank. For U.S. Investments in T-bills: Not FDIC Insured; No Bank Guarantee; May Lose Value. Treasuries risk disclosures, see https://jiko.io/docs/treasuries_risk_disclosure.pdf. See public.com/#disclosures-main.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you.

0:11.1

I'm Jason Pfeiffer, editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine.

0:14.1

And I'm money expert Nicole Lapin.

0:15.9

On Tuesdays, Jason and I answer the helpline and help callers solve their work problems.

0:20.3

And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you love.

0:25.9

And it starts now.

0:28.5

You are just done. You've been working on something for a while or you've been collaborating with other people or you've been involved with other people and it's

0:39.0

done. You want to end it. It's time to move on. You're just not sure how to tell those other people.

0:47.2

Today, I will show you how. This is a follow up to last week's podcast where I talked about the

0:53.9

power of ending things.

0:55.9

I explained that I had just ended a community that I created, which meant telling 160 people

1:02.0

that it was over.

1:04.0

After I published that, I heard from a listener named Rachel.

1:07.6

She told me this.

1:08.9

I'm just going to read from an email that she wrote.

1:10.2

She wrote, as someone who procrastinates on ending things because I hate disappointing people, the prospect

1:16.4

of writing emails or announcing endings often stops me from taking any action at all. How did you

1:22.9

write your email to your community? I'd love to see it and formulate strategies for ending

1:27.4

things on a good

1:28.2

note. Well, Rachel, that is a great idea. Today on this episode, I'm going to do just that. I'm going to

1:34.8

dig into the very specific tactics and words you can use to end things and end them well.

1:42.6

And I'm going to do that by sharing two specific kinds of endings.

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