Firing the right way

By Jack & Suzy

What Mgrs should do?

1. Preventing the surprising goodbye

Rigorous and candid performance evaluations, twice a year at minimum to let the employees know where are they standing, especially if they are standing close to the exit.

Once you're sitting arocess the table from your own Richard, do not sugarcoat hard messages. You're helping no one least of all the employee who's being lulled into a false sense of security.

2. Help make the exit as devoid of humiliation as possible.

Give the fired employee more time to find a new job where his/her skills are a better match.

Spend more time with the fired employee. Take the employee for periodic lunches and check in with him more often than that.