Here's How to Quickly and Easily Light a Fire
Under Your
Most Unproductive, Slow-as-Molasses-in-Winter
Employee
. . .
Dear Manager,
I’ll bet you’ve got at least one employee who’s
turned slacking off into an art form.
You’ve tried everything you can think of to get him
moving, but nothing has worked.
Now you’re faced with the prospect of either
replacing him (which will cost you an average of $3,000), or
letting him continue to draw a paycheck he
isn't earning.
It’s not fair to you, and
it's not fair to your other
employees who EARN their paychecks.
An Inconvenient Truth
It's never a good idea to keep slackers on
payroll.
But it's an even worse idea now than it was just
last year.
Since then, the stock market has crashed, and
General Motors and Chrysler have gone bankrupt.
Companies are laying people off by the thousands,
managers are being asked to do more with fewer employers and tighter
budgets, and you're still keeping slackers.
Does that
make any sense to you?
Quite frankly, it's dereliction of duty for a
manager.
(If you're guilty of this, maybe you're the one
that should get laid off.)
I Don't Mean to Beat
You Up
I want more for you than you want for yourself.
But if you call yourself an effective manager,
you have to make sure everyone is pulling their weight
- NO EXCEPTIONS.
If you
allow just one slacker to soak up a salary he doesn’t deserve,
your other employees lose respect for you when they see you letting
him get away with it.
(Remember that "Firm, Fair, and Consistent" mantra
I preach all the time?)
Even
worse, he'll drag down everybody else's performance.
And slowly but surely, you'll become less
effective and less valuable to your company.
You Can’t
Afford to Do Nothing About This
Doing nothing is NOT an option.
Heck, that’s exactly what your slacker employee is
doing.
But with all the things you have on your plate,
you need a way to solve this
problem quickly, easily, and inexpensively.
That's why I'm personally inviting you to wrap up
the year on December 17 with my last teleseminar of 2009 -
“How to Motivate Unmotivated Employees”.
It's the perfect way to go into 2010, prepared for
whatever challenges the economy may bring to your organization in
the next year.