MBA476 Q&A Weekends: I need to fire an employee. Any advice?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Mitch is not in a fun situation right now. He needs to fire an employee and he's asking for an advice. Maybe Mitch is hoping to do it without feeling bad or guilty. Firing an employee is never pleasant but there are ways to do this right. Firing is not always because your employee stole from you or they're not on time everyday. Sometimes it also means that you're just not a match, that the employee is just not a great fit for your company especially when you're trying to make it better. Learn how to do it the right way. Hit play!

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0:13.4	Heyo! Welcome to the 100 R&B show and and today is a Q&A weekend's episode where we answer your question right here on the show.
0:17.2	If you have a question you want to ask just email us at contact at 100MBA. Or send me a tweet on Twitter my handle is biz republic biz republic
0:26.2	as always I'm your host your coach your teacher omar is at home
0:30.0	I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online.
0:36.3	If you're looking to nail your business idea, if you're looking to nail any kind of idea that you have with your business,
0:41.5	whether it's a logo a tagline a product idea
0:44.7	price idea check out our free course on the five steps of idea validation it's completely
0:49.5	free to seven-part video course along with the workbook.
0:53.0	Just go to 100 MBA.net slash free hyphen course.
0:57.0	Today's question comes from Mitch.
1:00.0	And Mitch asks, I need to fire an employee.
1:03.4	Any advice?
1:04.6	Not a fun situation, Mitch.
1:06.6	I definitely feel for you I had to do this myself a few times,
1:10.6	more than a few times over the course of my career. it's never pleasant but you need to know how to do it right and I know how you feel you're kind of looking for an answer
1:18.8	Maybe some sort of procedure and we're here to help you out
1:23.0	Sometimes people are just not a good fit for your company.
1:25.0	Sometimes you just need somebody better.
1:28.0	And that's just a reality, guys.
1:29.0	When you're trying to improve, you need the best people on your team.
1:32.0	And if they can't improve, if they can't improve if they can't
1:34.0	become better with the company it may be time for you guys to part ways. I'm giving
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