Discipline

One of the hardest things to do as a leader is making sure your team moves in one direction. When a team member goes another way or breaks the rules,...

What will I do if a missing employee returns months later? Does this constitute abandonment? What are his legal entitlements?

How do you conduct an administrative investigation? How do you know if you have enough evidence to proceed? We tackle that in today's article.

What’s the best way to distribute the policies at work? The important thing is how you can prove it was distributed and received. Learn some technique...

What is a preventive suspension used for? When can you issue it? Does this mean the employee is being punished? Let's talk about the circumstances whe...

When I coach students or clients on drafting their own Notices, I tell them to think of the NTE as a set of bowling pins. Each charge or accusation in...

Disciplinary cases will come up sooner or later. When is the best time to act on them? Are there things you can do to make it easier to handle? Let's...

Whenever penalties are concerned, due process is a basic requirement you have to deal with. Due process simply means having a valid ground and giving...

You issue policies and actions with the best of intentions. However, they sometimes backfire on you. Here are 2 tips to avoid that from happening.

What do you do if your favorite employee screws up at work? You want the violation to stop, but you can’t bear to see your employee’s face if you hand...

I teach participants in my workshops how to write great work policies. Once they learn the technique for doing so, the question that always follows is...

By itself, incident reports are pretty neutral. It gains an effect or character in the manner you use it. But nobody ever said that I.R.’s are suppose...