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In this episode, Molly reveals why so many law firm owners struggle with underperforming employees—not because they lack good people, but because they lack a clear framework for making people decisions.

You'll walk away with practical tools to evaluate employee performance, coach with confidence, make difficult decisions with clarity, and build a team that helps your law firm grow instead of slowing it down.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how to determine whether an underperforming employee needs coaching, retraining, a new role, or it's time to let them go using a proven leadership framework.

• Discover why many hiring mistakes are actually onboarding, training, or role alignment issues—and how to identify the real problem before making costly staffing decisions.

• Improve employee performance with clear expectations, accountability, coaching, and measurable performance goals that build stronger, more engaged teams.

• Recognize the warning signs of a true hiring mistake and protect your law firm's culture before poor performance impacts morale, productivity, and profitability.

• Build a high-performing legal team with practical leadership strategies that strengthen accountability, improve retention, and support long-term law firm growth.

Quote for the Show: "The right decision isn't always to fire someone. Sometimes the right decision is to train them. Sometimes it's to move them. And sometimes it's to let them go." - Molly Mcgrath

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• Website: https://hiringandempowering.com/
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• Get Fix My Boss Book: https://amzn.to/3PCeEhk

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