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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few days ago from someone queried about the best way to give notice to a new employee that she is not making the grade. I'm a similar position, but the opposite timing - someone who has been in the same job too long.

We are a medium sized nonprofit and firing is justifiably rare. However, this staffer has been here now for six years and long ago checked out. She's incredibly polite and (I think) well intentioned, but she has zero initiative and has been worse than phoning it in for months now. She has received increasingly less subtle encouragement that it would be best for her own career to move onto something new for at least 3 years, and at her most recent review a few months ago she was told that her performance was not meeting expectations AND encouraged to step up the job search. All that has happened since then is that she is less engaged in her work here than ever. There is a perception among others in the office that she is a very nice person who just lacks any real get-up-and-go, and probably won't leave of her own volition.

There are no dramatic screwups but she is seriously underperforming. I really need a staffer who is excited about our work and willing to invest some effort and brainpower. I really don't want to fire her outright, but I also feel like I can't just wait until she finds something new - that could be forever. There aren't real lateral opportunities in-house- she's got to find something elsewhere, as dozens of others in her position do every year. I've been encouraged to give her a timeline, of my own choosing. Any advice from anyone who has BTDT, from either end? If you've got an employee with no initiative, how do you encourage them to move on?[/quote]

Raises hand! Is your organization hiring? Just kidding..... sort of.

All that said, I can't imagine how hard it must be to motivate someone to move when they can't even be bothered to motivate to do the job they have now.[/quote]

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