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The Corky Story - Part 2

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2014

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 of Dani's best management story about how she used the Manager Tools Trinity to terminate a poor performer in an organization where "you can't fire anyone.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Manders Tools. This week, part two of a special cast, the Corky Story.

0:07.0

Don't believe people when they tell you, you can't fire anybody around here.

0:11.0

Folks, this cast is about managing people and about how difficult it is, how difficult

0:16.8

everybody says it is to fire people, but how really it isn't if you're a manager

0:20.3

tools manager and you're going to learn how to manage people effectively by coming to our effective

0:24.3

manager conference.

0:25.2

We encourage you to come to the website.

0:27.0

Learn more.

0:28.0

Go to the forums and ask from the people who have actually been whether or not they recommend

0:31.4

it.

0:32.4

I suspect you'll find they will.

0:34.0

Welcome back to part two of the Corky story. I know the first part was a little long and not

0:39.9

terribly actionable but this part we really get into the meat of what actually

0:44.2

happened with Danny as a manager very first management job and I love his story

0:50.7

okay pick us up where we left off Danny. Okay so where we left it

0:55.1

last time was you know I was talking about that I had just I started doing one-on-ones with

1:01.0

Corky and the rest of my directs and that it was pretty clear to me pretty

1:06.2

quickly that Corky's what he was doing we just were not getting a very good return

1:12.2

on investment from his time and from

1:13.8

his expense, from the expenses.

1:16.8

So I kept doing one-on-ones, just kept focusing on building the relationships,

1:23.1

getting to know the rest of the folks

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