IMPROVING WORKPLACE DISCIPLINE PRACTICES
Overview
Addressing disciplinary issues is a reality for most managers. This can be a very sensitive and stressful process that many deal with in only a cursory manner or avoid altogether. However, if disciplinary issues are avoided or handled poorly, it can lead to very serious problems for the organization and the individuals involved. While disciplining employees may not be a pleasant task, it does not have to be painful and laborious. Instead, the discipline process can be a valuable tool to help employees and the company achieve success.
Education is key to establishing proper discipline techniques in your workplace. The goal of AHI's Improving Workplace Discipline Practices is to assist you in training your team to fully understand how to establish a structure for discipline that holds employees accountable for meeting established expectations. A well-designed system of discipline can help prevent potential discrimination and retaliation problems, ensure the validity of the company's employment decisions, and positively motivate employees to improve performance or conduct.
Course Goal
To learn a more effective discipline process that supports the achievement of workplace expectations, motivates employees toward positive change, and helps avoid discrimination and retaliation claims.
Course Objectives
By the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Ensure that when managers discipline employees, the process is legal, motivational, and effective.
- Identify common mistakes in disciplining staff.
- Explain the value of establishing expectations and consequences.
- Discuss how to communicate and reinforce expectations.
- Describe proper investigation of violations.
- Explain how to ensure appropriate disciplinary decisions.
- List the guidelines for effectively documenting discipline actions.
- State procedures for legal termination of an employee.
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Our lead instructor, Elle Peji, is a Senior Trainer and Human Resource Consultant. Since 2000, she has designed, developed, and delivered training courses on topics including appropriate workplace behavior, diversity, sexual harassment prevention, discrimination in employment, workplace violence, liability prevention and management, conducting internal investigations, performance management, conflict management, and policy writing.
She has conducted training courses on discrimination and harassment, both in person and live via the Internet, for over 1,000 supervisors and HR personnel from a wide variety of organizations.
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