Luke Murray fired a long-term employee on Friday, then asked his team at Monday's meeting if they felt sad about it. They admitted they did. He explores how to acknowledge emotions like sadness in business instead of pretending they don't exist.
Last week we let go of an employee that had been with us almost longer than any other employee. It's Monday morning. At the Monday morning meeting, the person had been let go on Friday. We said, how does everyone feel about that? And no one said a word. And so I said, well, my guess is do some of you guys feel sad? Because this person again was a friend of lots of ours. They'd done a lot of great work and I eventually got folks to admit, yes, I am sad. And so I said thanks for letting me. Letting us know it's okay that you're sad. And if you'd like to know what other emotions came up and how I dealt with them and why it's important to talk about emotions when you let someone go or any other time in business, then click on the link below for the full video because at some point you might have to say.
