How do I tell someone on my team their work isn’t good enough?
A plan for a hard conversation with someone you manage: the opening, the examples and the next step.
- When to use
- When you manage someone, something has to be said, and you’ve already postponed it once.
- Time
- 10 min
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I manage someone and need to talk to them about . Two specific things that happened: . What I want to be different a month from now: . I’ve left out their name and anything private about them. Ask me up to three questions, one at a time, about whether I’ve raised this before and what may have changed for them lately. Then plan a 20-minute conversation: a two-sentence opening that states the problem with no compliment sandwich, each example as what happened and what it caused, two questions that let them give their side, and a next step with a date. End with what I might have wrong about them, the part I may have played, and the sentence I’ll be tempted to say and shouldn’t.
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