Stop pretending!

I had a discussion this week with a close colleague who runs a small operation that employs about a dozen or so persons. He was faced with the challenge of sending home one of his employees who had not been demonstrating the required quality of work to maintain the standards of the organization. The difficulty here was that my colleague was convinced that the young man had both the skill set and the capacity to deliver... and after repeated attempts at diplomatic persuasion, my colleague had decided that this was just not working. Of course the young employee defended his work ethic and productivity and insisted that he was committed, bla, bla, bla... My position on situations like this is that we need to stop pretending - good leaders need to sometimes cut to the chase and let employees know when they're not meeting the standard... and employees need to be honest... to themselves and to their employers.

The interesting thing for me here is that I figure that when employees truly make valuable contributions to their organizations - they'll feel better about themselves; they'll reflect their true value and they'll surely reap the rewards to which they are entitled... so stop the pretending and let your true value shine through!

+ve vibes,

Mark