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Post by trey on Nov 7, 2013 15:04:39 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Spend All Your Time Fixing Your Worst Employee
Attempting to fix a lack-luster employee can end up with you spending too much valuable time on a lost cause. Your time is just as valuable as the time you are paying your employees while they are on the clock. Take a step back and see if it is possibly something in the working environment that is causing this employee to under perform.
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Post by dipanjali1 on Nov 7, 2013 20:30:15 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Spend All Your Time Fixing Your Worst Employee
Well, this article only sounds partly logical to me. If you designate someone as the worst employee, then there should be another one a liitle better than the worst, and another one a little better than that and so on. But, this is absolutely wrong. The idea is to run whatever you are working on, in a smooth way. To do that you need to get help from some and give help to some which, in other words, means making the whole team including yourself to do better. Although you need to keep track of everyones work, designating someone as the worst, by itself sounds like a wrong idea to me and working to make the team better sounds like the right thing for me. Therefore, I partly agree with the article.
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Post by w0384905 on Nov 7, 2013 22:05:29 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Spend All Your Time Fixing Your Worst Employee
Don't waste time on your worst employees but instead help your best employees and your customers. It's okay if you see the value in your worst employee but are they really worth the time. The amount of people out there looking for jobs are so great that you can just replace them if they are not doing a great job. It's okay to help your employees and get them to where they need to be but make sure they are worth the time and effort.
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Post by natjohnson90 on Nov 8, 2013 11:16:27 GMT -6
Saxon Castle says instead of focusing your attention on that one weakest person on your team, you should just focus on the team as a whole, and I agree. He suggests rethinking the issue to identify what you can do to improve your entire team. If you can find way to improve the team as a whole, it may helps the weakest person in that group. So find ways to help the whole group instead of that one weakest link.
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Post by beccabourgeois on Nov 9, 2013 15:05:56 GMT -6
Your first instinct is probably to try spending a lot of time fixing a bad employee. But this article advises you not to do that. If you focus all your time and energy on one employee, it will distract you from everything else. Kolditz says, "Although you might be tempted to focus on fixing that employee, spending too much time and energy on the weakest members of your team will distract you. He suggests that you should rethink the issue to identify what you can do to improve your entire team. It’s usually more important for you to address the company as a whole rather than to fret over a single weak employee.
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Post by katiebourgeois on Nov 9, 2013 15:44:07 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Spend All Your Time Fixing Your Worst Employee
I would agree with Castle. Focusing on the organization's issues as a whole is more important that focusing on one weak employee. If you spend time trying to improve just the one employee, you are putting the business on the back burner. However, if you focus on the organization rather than just one employee, you can better the company and the weak employee can learn as they go. I believe that a manager or owner must always put the well being of the firm first. Let's be honest, you can always hire another employee. Most organizations only have one chance.
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Post by zekesonnier on Nov 9, 2013 23:00:53 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Spend All Your Time Fixing Your Worst Employee
That is an interesting thought from Castle when he says poor performance can often be related to conditions in the organization that allow it. Considering not to focus on the weak employee but the organization as a whole reminds me of people in boot camp or on a football team. When the Sargent targets the strong to take responsibility for the weak and as a team everyone excels together. Focusing too much attention on the weak link can distract the leader from keeping the momentum of the whole team.
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Post by w0415498 on Nov 9, 2013 23:36:47 GMT -6
Everyone makes mistakes. Yes it is in hiring but no one is perfect. Even the hirers make mistakes, so you can't always blame other people. We all are human. And humans make mistakes.
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Post by sbardwell on Nov 10, 2013 8:04:50 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Spend All Your Time Fixing Your Worst Employee
My opinion is that you cannot “fix” anyone. If a person does not want to improve there is not one thing you can do about it. If they wanted to improve they would work on themselves or ask for help in doing so. A good point is made about setting the conditions for the entire team in which to improve the employee. If you have made efforts in which to improve or change the conditions and that employee is still deficient, then maybe it is time to change the team member.
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Post by tscott88 on Nov 10, 2013 11:15:59 GMT -6
As an owner you should get rid of the bad apples. You should understand who your strong employees are and your weak employees. Managers and owners should focus on the overall company not just the employees who are not at their best. Owners should make a tough decision when it comes to employees who they feel are not at the performance level they should be at. Teach them how to become better employees or cut their lost.
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Post by christiebrown on Nov 10, 2013 15:47:55 GMT -6
Sometimes it is necessary to have people as employees that aren't as skilled as the others. In all honesty, sometimes having someone below you is more fire for you to do better as an employee. It is almost impossible to have employees that are all equally as good at doing the job as others, and that are as equally driven as well. It just doesn't happen. I agree with this article. You'll always have someone at the top, and there's also always going to be someone at the bottom.
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Post by ashleylevernharrison on Nov 10, 2013 16:52:16 GMT -6
Instant MBA: Don’t Spend All Your Time Fixing Your Worst Employee
I agree with this article. You should not spend all you time trying to fix one employee, but they should be given chances to improve themselves and their work. But if you see that the worst employee is bringing down your whole team then you might want to start reprimanding him. You should also look at the team as a whole because it might not be just that one employee that needs fixing; all of the employees, even the best ones, might have something that they need to work on.
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Post by wparker on Nov 10, 2013 18:03:06 GMT -6
"Don't spend all your time fixing your worst employee"
I can definitely relate to this link. I had one employee that was a constant weak link. They weren't quick enough, couldn't multi-task, and had no customer relation skills. After coaching them for several weeks, it eventually boiled down to just letting that employee go. It's never fun to fire an employee, but if they aren't helping your company at all and coaching and training them isn't working, you just need to cut your losses. Spending too much time focused on them adds a lot of unwarranted stress. It also takes away from focusing on other employees, customers, or your business as a whole.
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Post by danielleolivier on Nov 10, 2013 20:20:44 GMT -6
When hiring employees, it is easy to make mistakes, and mistakes do happen. Someone may seem like the perfect fit but once they start working, that may not be the case. Even when these mistakes are made, they are sometimes overlooked due to managers focusing too much on the weakest links in the company. Instead of putting to much focus in one point, it is better to make the employees better as a whole than trying to just focus on one part.
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Post by clayb1919 on Nov 10, 2013 22:43:56 GMT -6
This link hits on the issue of weak employees. It says to not focus on the single employee but instead on the organization as a whole. The organization is what allowed that employee to be weak. I’ve noticed this in slow co-workers before. I could have put the blame on him, but in reality the business plan is what allowed him to slack in the first place.
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