How to Manage Lazy Employees

Video Transcript

"How to manage lazy employees. I hear it all the time from managers. I'm Gloria Campbell with Advantage Training Systems located in St. Petersburg, Florida giving you the best way to handle a lazy employee. You first want to make sure that you observe what is happening and that you document it. Documentation is the best way to handle most situations. The next thing you are going to want to do is you are actually going to confront the employee. Maybe confront is too strong of a word but you are going to sit down and you are going to let that employee know what you have observed. The second thing is that you are going to set some goals and objectives and a timetable with it so if the behavior that you are trying to change is not acceptable, you have given it a time frame in which you want that behavior to change and you also want to give feedback along the way and you want to make sure that that employee knows that you are going to want to have a follow up session and be prepared to do whatever is necessary to change the outcome and the behavior. That may mean transferring that employee or even in some cases firing that employee. My name is Gloria Campbell and I'm with Advantage Training Systems located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The best way to handle a lazy employee is to give them an opportunity, if that doesn't work, then let them find somewhere else to work."