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Set up to fail: Bosses create problem employees more often than you think

To set employees up to succeed, let them be themselves, provide the tools they need and help them align their personal success with the success of your agency.

By Angie Herbers | Updated on April 18, 2017
Make sure your employees aren't prevented from doing their best by various roadblocks created by the agency owner or their direct supervisor. (Photo: iStock)

I can’t tell you how many times an owner-advisor client has come to me about an employee who is “not working out,” and most of the time they have already decided the employee just has to go.

I usually can talk them back from that ledge, at least long enough to for me to talk to the employee in question.

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