How you manage incompetent employees is essential to improving team performance and reducing the time, effort and hassle you experience in dealing with poor employees.

Use these 4 steps to be fair to yourself, your team and your business.

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Video Time Stamps

00:00 Intro
02:14 Understanding What Is Behind The Incompetence
03:27 Assessing The Potential
04:58 When Transferring Is The Answer
06:02 How To Fairly Remove Them From The Team
07:24 In Summary

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You might take over a new team with an incompetent person in it, or a person may become incompetent over time with increasing demands of their role and they fail learn and grow.

There are loads of reasons why you might have incompetent people in your team. Incompetent employees are those who perform noticeably below peers – by 20-30%+

Incompetent team members are, unfortunately, toxic to team performance and career progression as a manager. If you want to do a good job, you can’t ignore incompetent people at work.

Always make the time to ask questions and find out what is behind the incompetence. A surprising amount of the time, the issues causing incompetence are very fixable. This is the quickest way to improving team performance and is a good demonstration of your management skills.

The second step for how to deal with incompetent people is assess the potential. Some people have lot, and some don’t. You manage each differently. I go through the factors you should consider.

The third step in how to deal with incompetent employees is to think about what other jobs in the company could I move this person to in which they could do a good job. For the right type of situations, offer to move the incompetent employee.

Finally, when dealing with difficult people and incompetent people and you run out of other practical and sensible options, take steps to remove the employee from your team.

Take action today. You cannot afford to ignore incompetent people in your team.

If you have any questions on “How to Manage Incompetent Employees – 4 Essential steps to Take Today”, please leave a comment below and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles
Enhance.training

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