Curing Cancer in Your Business

<p>This episode is about a problem that every business owner has who either has employees or plans to have them. This problem is the true cost of hiring the wrong employees, having the wrong people on your team, the toxic environment it creates, and how to deal with cutting out this cancer, while at the same time minimizing the stress it causes you a business owner and entrepreneur.</p><p>First, please know that this is general theory and my opinion, not legal advice in any way shape or form, and you should consult an attorney on this subject as employment laws at the federal and state level differ quite a bit. </p><p>For those of you who have been business owners for more than a few years, you most likely have had to let employees go for a variety of reasons. It’s generally not a task most business owners enjoy. </p><p>However, terminations are a critical part of your company as it drives, company culture which is one of the most important aspects of your company.</p><p>A few years ago I decided to write down a list of beliefs or values that I wanted our company to stand for. I then took this list of 8-10 belief statements and took them to my team in one of our weekly meetings and went through them one by one. </p><p>Over the years, I found that things like having an employee who doesn’t share the same beliefs about how they deal with their co-workers and our clients, never lasts. Not only don’t they last, but they can do a lot of damage to the other team members.</p><p>Typically, what we are taught in how to fire someone is to sit them down and explain the reasons they are getting fired by going over a laundry list of infractions or weaknesses and tell them it’s just not working out because they do this wrong, that wrong, aren’t strong in this area, etc</p><p>So how do we handle firing someone? I changed my approach after many years of doing it the standard way. Now when I fire someone, I select an external reason outside of the person’s inability or main reason you are firing them.</p><p>I’m not advocating you