How Good Employees Learn to Be Average
Business Resources One
You can hire a great employee with all kinds of potential—and then spend the next six months teaching them to be average.
New employees don’t learn the real performance standard from your handbook or onboarding presentation. They learn it by watching the team around them. What gets recognized? What gets corrected? What gets ignored? And what, ultimately, qualifies as good enough?
In Episode 60, Mike Voories looks at how tolerated underperformance can influence an entire team, why high performance can start to feel like punishment, and why leaders need to examine their own coaching and consistency before blaming the employee.
Accountability doesn’t require being a hard-ass. Done well, it creates clear, predictable expectations—and eventually a culture where the team starts protecting the standard itself.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 — How Good Employees Learn to Be Average
0:48 — Your Team Teaches the Real Standard
3:53 — When High Performance Starts to Feel Like Punishment
6:03 — Before You Blame the Employee
7:52 — Accountability Without Being a Hard-Ass
8:42 — When the Team Starts Protecting the Standard
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