Letting people go without negative impact.
I have been interviewing a lot of senior managers in the past months and one of the question I always ask is, if they have fired or let people go. I have been amazed at how many managers have never done this or shrugged of their responsiblity by letting HR do a complicated process. I have always been an optimist and hired for the potential in others rather than their immediate experience. This has mostly worked for me but I have had cases where I had to let person go mainly because of attitude. There has also been times when I had to let people go not only because of their performance but because the company was not performing as expected. The issue with any firing is that human connections are broken and effects the moral of everyone. Here are my top advice. 1. Make sure the process is transparent, not only to the one getting fired but also everyone around him. 2. Do not delay the firing decision. Make it fast and painless. Move-on and let the other person also move-on. 3. Do t...