Dan Martell - August 16, 2024


The People Planner Quadrant

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Length

56 seconds

Words per minute

225.64

Word count

213

Sentence count

14


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In this episode, I talk about the people planner quadrant and how to know when it's time to let go of a negative employee. I walk you through the process of identifying who you should get off your team if they have a negative attitude and why you need to get rid of them.

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00:00:00.000 I have a ton of clients ask me,
00:00:01.580 how do I know when I need to fire someone?
00:00:03.420 And I walk them through this powerful process.
00:00:05.860 I call it the people planner quadrant.
00:00:07.560 So in the top right quadrant,
00:00:08.740 you have high effectiveness, high value.
00:00:10.560 This is where you wanna do everything you can
00:00:12.440 to keep those people on your team.
00:00:13.960 It's where you wanna have retention bonuses
00:00:15.860 and golden handcuffs,
00:00:17.660 strategies to really involve their dreams and goals
00:00:20.440 to be part of the business growth.
00:00:21.860 Then you have low effectiveness, but high values.
00:00:24.640 These are folks that might just be
00:00:26.320 in the wrong seat on the bus.
00:00:27.980 you wanna coach these people up or out of your business,
00:00:31.220 then you have low effectiveness, low values.
00:00:33.520 These are people that you just have to get off your team
00:00:35.740 as soon as possible.
00:00:36.720 High effectiveness, low values, they get stuff done,
00:00:39.500 but they have a negative attitude
00:00:40.980 and that can spread like cancer.
00:00:43.040 It can literally cause you a massive culture shift
00:00:46.120 in your business where one day you walk in
00:00:47.940 and you hate coming to work.
00:00:49.580 You gotta get these people off your team ASAP.
00:00:52.220 If you do this process, you'll never wake up
00:00:54.620 running a business that you've grown to hate.