Comments for Coach Layzell http://www.coachlayzell.com South Florida Business Coach Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Why to retain Employees – or not? by Joel http://www.coachlayzell.com/2012/how-to-retain-employees-or-not.html#comment-70 Joel Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:07:34 +0000 http://www.coachlayzell.com/?p=371#comment-70 We struggled recently with letting go an employee who was unorganized and had a poor outlook on life, which brought down the mood of our office. The reason we struggled is because we incorrectly interpreted her messy work area and craziness to an overload of work. When we let her go on a Friday, I went in Saturday morning to see how I can organize and get her work back on track. In about 3 hours, I put her work in order, finished a tremendous amount of pending items that sat around with no end in site for months and by Saturday at Noon, it looked like a different work area.

On that following Monday we asked another employee to take over her responsibilities on top of her own. We raised her pay a couple of dollars per hour and haven’t looked back since. We now have a great employee who is organized, which makes her able to do two jobs, because she is not wasting time trying to figure out where she’s at with everything and we lowered our payroll. Win/win all around.

Having people stay with you for a long time is great, if they are good, but keeping people who are not working out, just to keep them is a very bad mistake.

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]]> Comment on Business Finances – Love Your Numbers by dalia berlin http://www.coachlayzell.com/2012/love-your-numbers.html#comment-67 dalia berlin Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:01:02 +0000 http://www.coachlayzell.com/?p=365#comment-67 Umm, I feel this was just the direction I am finally working up to, thanks to you and your eye opening advice.

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