From the course: Just Ask: Todd Dewett on Management and Leadership

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Encouraging everyone to pitch in

Encouraging everyone to pitch in

- [Interviewer] This question comes from Denise Detmer. She asks, early this year our part time person left for a full time job and instead of replacing that person we asked all our employees to pitch in. The problem is one person isn't doing it. It's our accounting manager and they see themselves as irreplaceable. Rather than singling out that person individually we thought we'd ask everyone to put together a little document describing what tasks they're doing to pitch in. That way we aren't pointing a finger at just one pereon. Do you have any better suggestions? - [Instructor] All right Denise, if I understand things correctly, you've got this small company and it's a kind of place where people chip in and get things done. But you've got one person, an accounting manager, who's really not following that rule of thumb, and they do have some expertise that you're afraid makes them unfireable and I got to tell ya…

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