What was the reason why you most recently fired someone?

Our reader poll today asks: What was the reason why you most recently fired someone? Poor performance: 54.8% I’ve never fired anyone: 15% Layoff (not their fault): 10.1% Breaking company rules: 9% Illegal activity: 5.3% Some other reason: 5.7% Behave and perform. While illegal or rule-breaking behaviors will get you fired, clearly poor performance is the biggest risk to continued employment. The real question to the leader who does the firing. Did you make expectations clear? Did you provide the person the resources and training they needed to perform? Did you provide timely feedback and coaching or did you wait until things got so bad that you were forced to take action? While not every person is suited to every job, if someone gets fired for a performance issue, leaders need to...



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