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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes you're right---big company.  I do need people to take on different tasks but the skill-sets required for the tasks are very different for the two parts of the team---there are also  issues of who reports  to who etc-----it could possible be worked though, but is not ideal.  My director asked me to figure out what my ideal positions would be be  (which don't match up to who we have the skill sets we have ).  My normal reaction would be to try to find compromises, but that hasn't worked very well in the past. [/quote]

Can you provide more details on the skill sets not matching? For example do you have a group of accountants and you need more developers? I would really think through the difficulty of terminating and rehiring versus trying to retrain. Some of these folks may have flexible skills and attitudes which could make the transition easier. I'm not sure how often you hire folks but think about the effort that will go into screening and selecting unknown future employees versus training and transitioning proven employees.

You might also find that some folks do not want to do something else and will want to move on. Since you said this is a big company can theses folks not be moved elsewhere instead of being terminated?[/quote]

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