Excerpted from the Executive Report: Turning Good Employees into Great Managers – A Guide for New Managers
If you have a bad apple on your team. Is it better to try and salvage the person or just get rid of that person?
Clearly if the person can do the job and just isn't trying or is goofing off, you want to put some energy into salvaging that individual. New managers often think they can - and should - try to save everyone.
But they shouldn't spend too much of their time on that.
The top commodity a new manager offers to the organization is his or her time. And if you waste too much of it on a lost cause, you're turning yourself into overhead and others you manage will notice.
To simplify, you can break your employees into three categories:
- eagles: top performers who fly and soar
- robins: folks who come to work and get the job done, but who don't rise to the top
- turkeys: self-explanatory.
Ask: Where am I spending the majority of my time and energy? Nine out of 10 managers will say the lion's share goes to the turkeys - and that's not good!
Best approach: Spend most of your time encouraging the eagles to keep soaring and develop the robins to become eagles.
Spend just enough time with the turkeys to let them know
they need to get better - or else.
The key to business success is managing people. For more help, check out the Executive Report: Turning Good Employees into Great Managers – A Guide for New Managers
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