News Summary

• “Cold, unexplainable firing by people they’ve never met - even after years of loyalty for some … Heartbreaking stories of people’s lives suddenly changing with no explanation and just told to ‘deal with it”.”“What???.
• When we’re doing performance management right, we can often tell within 3 months or less of a sales hire, even during the holidays, whether they’re going to be successful or not.Sadly, we don’t hire perfectly..
• “The most incredible outpouring of support has honestly restored my faith in the corporate world.”But she added that the most common message she’s received is that she is not alone.“Many people have experienced something shockingly similar,” she wrote..
• HR should be involved, but it shouldn’t be outsourced to them, No employee should ever actually be surprised they weren’t performing.We don’t always get it right..
• And sometimes under performing employees don’t actually listen to the feedback they’ve gotten before we let them go..
• But any healthy org needs to get the people who aren’t performing off..