How To Identify a Good Employee

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Your employees aren’t quite up to snuff, but how do you know whether to keep training them or fire and re-hire? Are they truly good employees?

This short video will show you how to make the cut. Please watch and comment.


Action Steps:

  1. Start by making a list of your “Top 3” employees. If you can’t think of any who currently work for you, think of people from the past whom you really loved.
  2. Then, list the three traits that made these people good employees.
  3. Next, look for traits these employees have in common.
  4. Compare those three shared traits to every single employee you have working for you right now.
  5. If an employee matches those traits, keep working with them. If they don’t fit those traits, they’re an “LVE,” a Less Valuable Employee. You may want to look at replacing them with someone who fits the company better.

Principles to Learn:

  1. The “MVE,” or Most Valuable Employee, is the person who brings the most to your business and your bottom line, regardless of what position they occupy.
  2. No matter what position they’re in, MVEs are good employees who can bring the most to the bottom line because they fit the business.
  3. Traits are more important than skills. While you can develop skills, it’s difficult or impossible to develop traits in other people, including employees.
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