Staffing: Getting the Wrong People Off the Bus

Staffing: Getting the Wrong People Off the Bus - "In the third of our e-bulletins about staffing, we look at how senior leaders should tackle the sometimes difficult, but important issue of underperformance of staff. I remember a very valuable observation offered to me by an experienced headteacher before I took up my headship. He indicated that he had been naïve when he had started as a headteacher. He thought that all members of staff would be willing to change and could be influenced through rational good sense and persuasion. After a number of years he had come to the sober realisation that some staff were stubborn obstacles, that he had wasted too much time on them and should have tackled them head on much sooner. This view is in keeping with Jim Collins in his book Good to Great where he talks about not only getting the right people on the bus but also getting the wrong people off the bus if the organisation is to improve. The question is how do you manage this in an even-handed and fair way?"