How to Deal with Incompetent People at Work
You can’t wave a magic wand and make them competent. But these tips can help.
When you’re dealing with incompetent people, employees, colleagues, partners, co-workers — knowing how to manage that process is vitally important to your success as a leader and team player.
Lately, I’ve had some frustrations with what I feel are obvious errors with a couple people within my team — and the truth is, is that this will come up no matter what team you’re in or what level of business you’re at.
So — here’s goes at least some advice on how to manage these types of situations.
Don’t Lose Your Cool With Incompetent People
This is something I’ve spent probably the first few years in business getting wrong.
I continually, for the first two years of running my agency, would lose my cool with Semil (my head of SEO) about all manner of things.
The problem with every conversation I had (regardless of the reason) was that I’d go in like a charging bull and it would make any attempt at constructive conversation worse.
When you see something ‘simple’ done badly, it’s easy (for me at least) to go nuclear almost immediately and then…
