A weekly article that I never fail to miss is \u201cThe American Entrepreneur\u201d by Ron Morris. I have always found his articles so \u201creal world\u201d that, if I don\u2019t already relate to the situations described, I feel that I better pay attention because I likely will in the future.<\/p>\n
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Ron\u2019s most recent article, \u201cBadges,\u201d talks about three of the most difficult situations a manager faces. The third situation is the process of firing an employee.<\/p>\n
While the termination of an employee is usually perceived as an indictment of that employee\u2019s performance, Ron sees two sides of the firing coin. He writes \u201cNever forget that your termination of an individual is at least 50% your fault. You mis-hired in the first place. You didn\u2019t use the modern tools (Wonderlic, Predictive Index, behavioral interviewing) and you probably, somewhere along the way, took a shortcut. And, of course, you may have skipped a step or two in training. So many failed employees end up on the scrap pile because they were poorly trained or not trained at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
In my line of work, I see all sorts of perceptions of training. Some companies view it as a critical piece of their strategic plan to achieve significant improvement. Others treat it less seriously.<\/p>\n
But, when training might make the difference between enjoying an employee\u2019s long-term contributions to success and the terrifying process of firing an employee \u2013 in the article, Ron describes a situation where a terminated employee threatened to be \u201cback with his M-16\u201d \u2013 it seems like a worthwhile thing to focus on, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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