“Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don’t like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don’t necessarily enjoy.” –Earl Nightengale

Do you know the number one job of every manager and supervisor? To make sure their employees are doing the jobs they were hired to do. And in managing people this can be challenging because it’s easy to think, “Well, if I want it done right, I might as well do it myself.” Or, “In the time it’s going to take me to train someone, I might as well do it myself!”

Don’t do everything for them. Otherwise, you’re training them to wash their hands of important assignments. Taking work away from the underperformer becomes an unintentional positive consequence for poor performance. And I guarantee, your employees will notice! It will have a huge negative impact on your team’s morale. As a speaker on leadership and managing people, I hear about it all the time.

I realize sometimes you have tight deadlines, and either you have to do the work yourself, or delegate it to a star performer. But don’t keep taking the work away from the underperformer. It becomes a habit. I even hear of superstars who have quit in disgust because of what someone’s been allowed to get away with. It’s important for employees to know that sometimes we have to do things we’d rather not.

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