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Stop complaining about employees

Name: Stop complaining about employees
Uploaded: 2023-01-15T18:00:01+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this monologue, Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP, urges business owners to stop blaming their employees for performance issues and instead examine their own…

15 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP, urges business owners to stop blaming their employees for performance issues and instead examine their own leadership. She argues that problems stem from either hiring the wrong people, failing to set clear expectations, or lacking the authority and respect needed as a boss. Liu advises leaders to continuously look one level up the hierarchy—first at the team, then at their own hiring decisions, and finally at their own management style—to recognize that most team shortcomings are actually leadership shortcomings. The core message is that employee underperformance is a leadership problem that the owner must own and resolve.

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Here's why business owners should stop complaining about their employees. If your employees are not where you want them to be, then either they're the wrong team or you are the wrong boss. Either way, it's your problem to solve. What I see so many leaders do is they continue to deflect onto their team every time there's a problem. Rather than looking at themselves, they look to the lowest level closest to the problem. And what I always tell people is continue to look one level up, one level up, one level up until what you realize is it's often you. Either you hired those people and you didn't set proper expectations, or you hired the wrong kind of person, or you aren't the right kind of boss that you're not commanding respect and you're not setting the tone of what's acceptable in your company. If you feel like there's a team that's off, that's not a team problem, that's a leadership problem. It's typically a you problem.