All right, what's up, my friends?

Welcome to today's episode of the Art of Online Business Podcast.

Rick Mulready here.

How the heck are you today?

I hope you're doing well.

So today I want to talk to you about a challenge that so many of us CEOs of online businesses

come across or deal with or ignore for way too long. I know that this is something that I did

early on in my business a lot actually because honestly it was just something that I didn't

want to deal with. And then I learned

my lessons. And that is the, when we hold on to an employee for far too long, meaning this person's

been underperforming for a long time and we have not dealt with it in the proper way. Whether that's

putting them on a performance plan or whether

that's actually letting them go, when we hold on to something or hold on to somebody for too long,

it is a huge hindrance to the business. Obviously, it's so important to have the right team members

in place to grow and scale your online business. And when we don't

have those people in place, meaning they're on your team maybe, but they're just not performing

what tends to happen. And what I see a lot of, especially this year, there are some people

in Accelerator that were going through this earlier in the year where they were holding on to

employees for too long for whatever reason. And it was really hurting the business. So what I want to do here today

is help you identify, you know, some of the signs of an underperforming employee, what some of

those consequences are of not taking action on that underperforming employee or employees, and then just give you

some actionable advice and tips on how to handle those situations.

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