Does It Ever Get Easier to Fire Someone? — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00Q, I am a team lead but I removed two
2. 0:02guys without prior notice. How could I
3. 0:05have done it better? Was it better to
4. 0:06give notice? Also, in general, I have a
5. 0:08hard time letting go of my members.
6. 0:10Listen, man, um or not man.
7. 0:13Uh
8. 0:13it's never easy to let go of people as
9. 0:16long as you have uh a heart.
10. 0:18And so, I don't think it really gets
11. 0:20easier. I think that you become more
12. 0:22skilled at maintaining your emotions and
13. 0:25keeping them in check and being able to
14. 0:27make the decision faster rather than
15. 0:28avoiding it for extended periods of
16. 0:29time. I'd say one of the big differences
17. 0:31between advanced business owners and
18. 0:33more beginner business owners is that
19. 0:34beginner business owners will keep
20. 0:36laggards and bad teammates on the team
21. 0:39way longer than advanced business
22. 0:40owners. It's not that like advanced
23. 0:42business owners somehow get it right
24. 0:44every time. It's just that when it's
25. 0:45wrong, they make the action a lot
26. 0:47faster. Um in terms of um letting it go,
27. 0:51the big issue is that you have to make
28. 0:52sure that you're prioritizing the
29. 0:53business and everyone else who works for
30. 0:55it. And so, let's say you have 10
31. 0:57employees.
32. 0:58Um
33. 0:59if you've got two people who are, you
34. 1:01know, pulling the team down, you're
35. 1:02literally sacrificing the other eight
36. 1:04because you don't want to have a hard
37. 1:05conversation with two. And so, you are
38. 1:08disserving the team and the business and
39. 1:10ultimately their long-term because if
40. 1:11you don't do this, the business could
41. 1:12eventually shrink down to you actually
42. 1:15are forced to let people go rather than
43. 1:17doing it proactively. And so, it's
44. 1:19always better to fire when you don't
45. 1:21have to than when you absolutely have
46. 1:22to. Um and so, I would always prefer to
47. 1:25get ahead and operate from a position of
48. 1:26strength rather than wait until the
49. 1:28point where I actually have no choice.
50. 1:29And then mental frame that I give
51. 1:30myself, and this is really useful, is
52. 1:33if I were Let's fast-forward this. Let's
53. 1:35assume the business was breaking even or
54. 1:36losing money.
55. 1:38What would you do then? How would you
56. 1:40feel at that point about letting them
57. 1:41go? You probably would feel very
58. 1:42different. You'd be like, "Well, we have
59. 1:43to do this, right?" And so, if in that
60. 1:46setting you would feel okay about doing
61. 1:47it and in this setting you don't feel
62. 1:49okay about it, then it means that it's
63. 1:51just the narrative that you're telling
64. 1:52yourself, but the action still remains
65. 1:53the same for them and so does the
66. 1:55outcome. And so, if what we're doing by
67. 1:58taking these actions we're preventing
68. 1:59this outcome from happening eventually
69. 2:01because at that point you still put
70. 2:02everyone else at risk versus just two
71. 2:04people.
72. 2:06And uh in terms of notice, I think you
73. 2:08want to let people know when they're
74. 2:09messing up and the consequences of
75. 2:11continuing to mess up, but I wouldn't
76. 2:14say like we're going to fire you unless
77. 2:16you're required by law depending on what
78. 2:17state or If you like this video and
79. 2:18you're a business owner who wants to
80. 2:19break through your current revenue
81. 2:20ceiling, I distilled every lesson from
82. 2:22scaling 10 businesses past 10 million
83. 2:24and three businesses past 100 million
84. 2:26into a completely free scaling roadmap
85. 2:28that I've used to go from zero to one,
86. 2:29zero to 10, and zero to 100 plus. And
87. 2:32so, you can click here and you can check
88. 2:33it out. Again, absolutely free. And
89. 2:35since you're a business owner, I
90. 2:35appreciate you and uh enjoy.