MBA840 Q&A Weekends: I need to fire an employee. Any advice? [REBROADCAST]

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Firing happens. It's a reality of business, and it's important to do it right. In this popular archived episode, we went over how to fire employees the right way.

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0:34.1	Today's Q&A Weekins episode is one from our archives.
0:37.9	It's a great one and it asks the question,
0:40.5	how do I fire an employee?
0:42.3	Any advice? Firing an employee is not easy. It's so hard, but it's something you have to do. I'm not playing it down. It's hard.
0:50.0	Especially if this person has a good attitude, but just doesn't have the skills.
0:53.8	It's a lot easier when they have a bad attitude, trust me, because you have no reason not to fire them.
0:59.0	But a lot of times it's really hard to let go of people, so how do you do it the right way how do you make sure that you've given
1:03.8	them all the chances that would be possibly fair and that you've given it everything you
1:08.6	can't invest in them but when it's time to actually say, we have to part ways,
1:13.1	how do you do it?
1:14.0	This episode first aired 400 episodes ago,
1:17.0	but it's one of our best Q&A weekends's episodes,
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