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5 Moves to Stop Carrying People Who Aren't Growing

5 Moves to Stop Carrying People Who Aren't Growing

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There's someone on your team who isn't growing, and you keep pouring yourself into them anyway, emotionally, mentally, month after month, hoping this is finally the month it clicks. You lie awake thinking about how to reach them. You replay the conversations. You carry them home with you, and slowly, quietly, it's draining the very energy your best people need from you. Here's what I want you to walk away with today. Carrying someone emotionally who won't grow isn't kindness, it's a slow leak in your leadership, and learning where to set that weight down is what frees you to pour into the people who are moving. I'll walk you through five moves to do that without guilt and without becoming cold. Episode Breakdown [00:01:30] I Fired My Number One Producer, Twice Let me tell you something that still isn't easy to say out loud. I've fired my number one producer, not once, twice. Both times the numbers were incredible. By volume and by units, that person was winning, and on paper letting them go looked insane. But here's what I finally had to admit to myself. I was winning in production and losing in culture. That one person was costing me in environment, in alignment, in the way everybody else on the team felt showing up every day. And for a long time I carried it, because the production was so good the numbers kept me hooked. [00:02:14] The Trap Isn't Always the Low Performer Sometimes it's the person with the best numbers or the most potential, and their production or their promise is the very thing that keeps you carrying something you should have set down a long time ago. Keeping the wrong person, no matter how much they produce, is never a winning strategy. Volume alone is never a good enough reason to keep someone who's quietly undermining everyone around them. [00:02:45] Move 1: Get Honest About the Difference Between Potential and Behavior Potential is what someone could do. Behavior is what they're doing right now. The most dangerous person on your team is high in potential and low in behavior, because the potential keeps your hope alive while the behavior slowly drains your tank. Same with production, like my number one. The good number kept me hooked while the behavior cost me everything around it. Lead to what's in front of you, not to the highlight reel of what could be. [00:03:19] Move 2: Define Your Avatar and Non-Negotiables Before You're Tangled Here's what I learned the hard way. If you don't decide in advance what you actually require, in values, in character, in how someone treats the team, you'll rationalize almost anything once the relationship is deep and the production is good. So write down the non-negotiable values for the person you want on your team. Decide the standard while your head is clear, so you aren't trying to make a values call through a fog of emotion and good numbers. [00:04:00] Move 3: Name What You'll Tolerate Out Loud You get what you tolerate. If you never name the standard, you've silently agreed to carry whatever shows up. So say it kindly and clearly. Here's what growth looks like on this team, here's what I need to see from you, and here's what happens if I don't. That isn't harsh, that's clarity, and clarity is one of the most caring things a leader ever gives, even when it's hard to say. [00:04:30] Move 4: Put a Budget on Your Investment Decide ahead of time how much time and emotional energy you'll pour into someone before their behavior has to change. Without a budget, you'll carry a person for years on nothing but hope. With one, you protect yourself, and you make the hard call before you're too tangled up to make it well. A budget isn't cold. It's the thing that keeps your leadership solvent. [00:04:55] Move 5: Move the Weight to the Willing Take the emotional energy you were spending trying to light a fire under someone who won't move and pour it into the people already showing you desire through their behavior. That energy compounds where there's desire and evaporates where there isn't. Here's the quiet tragedy most leaders never see. Your best people are often getting your leftovers, because someone who won't grow absorbed your best. Give your best back to the ones who are running. [00:05:33] Why It Works Your emotional energy is finite, even more finite than your time, and every ounce of it you spend carrying someone who won't grow is an ounce you stole from someone who would. That's the part that stings. It doesn't only cost you, it quietly robs the people on your team who are doing the work. There's a second thing too. The leader is the ceiling. When you're consumed carrying one person, you stop growing, and when you stop growing, the whole team's ceiling comes down with you. So setting a weight down was never about abandoning someone, sometimes it's the only way to keep leading everyone else well. And one more truth I had to learn twice over the hard way. Carrying the unwilling rarely even helps them. Growth was always going to be their decision,...
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