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The Two Reasons To Fire Someone

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

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

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

There are two general reasons to consider firing someone. Only one of them is "job performance." The other is tearing down the team.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Manager Tools.

0:02.0

The two reasons to fire someone.

0:05.0

Here we go.

0:07.0

This cast answers these questions.

0:09.0

What do I do with a top performer who is too hard to work with?

0:12.0

Is it okay for a direct to be

0:13.8

difficult as long as he gets his job done? How do I talk to someone who is not a

0:17.9

team player? Well if we want answers to these questions and more, keep

0:21.5

listening.

0:28.7

Finally after years of waiting the effective manager in book form is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble and your other retail booksellers as well as sign copies are available on our website

0:36.4

manager dash tools.com if you want to know the basics of how to manage others effectively

0:42.4

in book format,

0:44.0

including Kindle and e-book format as well,

0:47.1

we encourage you to buy, read,

0:49.7

and then implement the guidance in the effective manager.

0:53.0

Good morning, Danny, how are you?

0:55.0

I'm great, how are you?

0:57.0

I'm very good.

0:58.0

So I'm well excited, it's not the right word, because anytime you talk about firing people that shouldn't get you excited.

1:06.5

Right. But unfortunately that's part of the role being a manager and you have and I have we fired people and when we do it's with a

1:16.2

heavy heart and it's just the worst part of being manager. It's horrible and it should be

1:21.8

for good reason right it shouldn't be one of those managed. It's horrible. And it should be. For a good reason, right? It shouldn't be one of those things you take you take lightly. So you have to do it. And the question is like, when do you do it? And I think the first one, everybody's pretty clear when, you know, I think the first one everybody's pretty clear when you know generally

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