Discipline and Termination: How To Eliminate Poor Performance While Managing Your Legal Risks
Overview:
This webinar focuses on the right way to use discipline to minimize conflict and maximize employee performance and how to conduct legally sound and respectful terminations. Participants will explore issues that should be examined before disciplinary and termination decisions are made.
They will learn best practices and the important steps to follow before, during and after disciplinary or termination meetings. Effective discipline can protect the organization, the supervisor who enforces the rules, and the subordinates subject to the rules. Everyone suffers when issues concerning misconduct and discipline are not addressed properly. When discipline is properly carried out, challenges are often resolved before they get out of hand. Much of the burden for improvement is placed, as it should be, back on the subordinate. This webinar is full of information that everyone who has responsibility and authority to perform discipline and termination duties.
Why should you attend: If you are stuck with an employee that is not fitting in you may decide to get rid of them. This is sometimes easier said than done because if you do not discipline and terminate employees in the right way it can cost you and your organization. Discipline and termination may be two of the most important actions taken by a company. If either is administered incorrectly (wrongful accusations) or illegally (discrimination), the company may be facing lawsuits. In addition to possible legal issues, the treatment of an employee leaving the company or whose performance is substandard may affect the attitudes and morale of other employees. With ever rising high litigation costs and worker retaliation incidents it is important to do things the right way. It is far better to take the time to handle discipline and termination issues cleanly and properly than to deal with the problem created when you don’t In this webinar you will learn the way to handle these situations in a way that works for you, the employee and your organization.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Elements of a Discipline Program
- The Four Things Needed in a Disciplinary Episode
- The Discipline Meeting
- Three Critical Termination Factors
- The Termination Meeting
- Firing With Dignity
- Illegal Reasons to Terminate Employment
- Common Mistakes that Lead to Lawsuits
Who Will Benefit:
- Human Resources Professionals
- Customer service
- Management
- Supervisors
- Sales and Marketing
- Everyone with responsibility and authority for discipline and termination