We’ve heard “if you want to fly with the eagles, you can’t be scratching in the dirt with the turkeys.”
As leaders, we will only be as good as the people around us – the people on our team, especially the key people.
A leader or manager’s job is to develop people – to bring out the best in them.
But after so long, if the person around you is not responding, not getting better, and making the same mistakes over and over again, it’s time to admit you have the wrong person. By cutting them from your team you have the opportunity to get a fresh new person with better skills or character.
If you select the right person to replace them, this decision alone can save countless hours of training and frustration in the future.
I have stuck with people longer than I should have. When you remove someone from your team and others breathe a sigh of relief and say “what were you waiting for?”, you know you were too slow.
Improving the quality of the people on a team is the fastest way to improve the team.
It’s a problem to solve that will solve 1000 other problems.
My dad used to say: “it’s hard to soar with the eagles when you hang around a bunch of turkeys.” All kidding aside, we have an employee at our company that can get very angry at times and consequently people distance themselves from him. He is very good at what he does, but at some point the leader needs to move on from him so the rest of the team is happier and not stressed out by him weekly. Sadly, he makes the company a lot of money and the leader sees dollar signs. Sometimes he even blows up on the leader, and the leader just hangs in there.