We tell every manager the same thing: your job is to grow your people. So when someone's not a fit, the first question isn't "how fast can we fire them?" It's "why is this not working out?" If they are they unable, train them. If they are unwilling, find out what went wrong. Ultimately, the underlying causes for underpreformance may start with you.
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And we tell all of our managers, it's your job to develop and grow your people. So if that person's not a fit, why is that? Are they unwilling? Are they unable? Unable, we could fix that. We can train that with them. If they're unwilling, then we really need to dig in to why they are unwilling. Are they confused? Is their misalignment? Do they feel like they're not being supported? So I think you need to dive into all of these reasons as opposed to being quick to fire somebody, not understanding what is actually wrong. Because it could be in your control as to why they are disgruntled and wanting to leave or you needing to fire them because they haven't left yet.
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