have you tried free beer and cigars?

Create Competiton among them, it works every time..

In addition to what bloody says in 14, replace the weakest one among them with a super-strong new hire, who will be the kind of leader you want. Let the others know that there will be further changes, one way or another. Emphasize the accountability, etc. Encourage everyone and let them understand that you WANT them to succeed.

After 90 days, you talk to the next weakest in line. You can then decide whether there's been sufficient improvement. If not, you fire him and hire another strong manager.

Repeat every 90 days until you have your Dream Team.

ScottHar

Try reading this

"The One Minute Manager"

by Ken Blanchard...

Everyone in a Mgt.position should read this..

wheel,

Am I the only one getting a visual of Davey as Wally from Dilbert?

:)P~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

^ nah - I think he has 5 Walleys ....

Make sure you aren't favoring the one with his lips planted on your asscheeks before you start looking to change people. Then, fire the excuse maker. The rest will see what you expect then.

^Yep. Everyone who works for me is either a) new or b) excellent at his or her job.

(Okay, okay, or c) a smokin' hot girl in her 20s.)

ScottHar

Sounds like a job for Fred Pryor!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#28 I hope you realize that you have set yourself up for the ultimate humiliation. I mean, sure you deal with hot girls now. Some might find you attractive. But realize that some day down the road, you'll be flirting with one of these girls, and she will giggle, not because she thinks you are attractive, but because she will think that it's cute that someone your age could still try to put the moves on someone young and hot.

You will realize that they think you're "cute" not in a "I could see myself banging that guy" kind of way, but in a "look at that old geezer searching his pockets for his teeth and/or Viagra" kind of way, and think that you are totally harmless. At that point, you will realize that to them, you appear to be about 200 years old.

The universe is laying in wait for you, amigo!

Bwahahahahahahahahaha!

Sometimes you gotta thin the herd. I usually give them a warning, tell them what I expect, give them a chance to explain if I'm being unreasonable, and give them time to show me something. If they're trying, I try to help if I see some effort and potential.

If they're getting fired, they know exactly why. I'm not running a daycare.

Just got home. Wow, thanks for the support guys. Lots of sound council here.

Its at the point where I truly think I need an infusion of new blood. I ran an ad for two different manager positions today. This, AFTER I had a one on one with each dept head. I announced I am scheduling dept head reviews for each manager, and I privately read my Purchasing agent the riot act this afternoon.

I truly just believe I am maxed out with my resource potential, some just simply don't want to step up/grow, so I have to weight my options here.

In the end, it's been a hell of a day.

Read the "one minute manager" should be required. reading you are right.

oh and X, hemp or henna...?

davey, if you haven't surrounded yourself with talented people, for whatever reason, you need let them (help them) move on and get some that have the talents you require.

There are talented people that have lost their jobs, through no fault of their own, that are willing to work.