Leading Your Team After a Dismissal
If firing someone is hard for you, imagine how your other employees will feel.
—Amy Delpo and Lisa Guerin
YOUR WORK ISN’T finished just because you’ve dismissed an employee. You now need to take special steps to continue leading your team after the employee has departed. Communicating the dismissal and redistributing the workload are two especially important tasks.
Communicating the dismissal
Notify workers as soon as possible after someone has been dismissed. Pretending that nothing has happened will only fuel gossip or concerns among remaining group members that they’ll be dismissed next. The best way to ...
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