Description
Learn in a classroom environment with your peers, virtually, with an instructor online.
Course Length: 1 day
Target Audience: General
Discipline is not something any manager wants to do but it is a skill that is important to be able to perform consistently and fairly. This one-day course will look at the importance of minimizing discipline issues before they happen and the need to have a discipline policy in place. After determining what discipline is and what are appropriate levels of discipline, the course will explain the typical steps of progressive discipline and help you use it to manage employee behavior and performance.
Learning Objectives:
- Realize the importance of onboarding and performance management in minimizing disciplinary issues
- View discipline as a positive part of ensuring employee success
- Differentiate between performance problems and misconduct
- Decide appropriate levels of discipline, considering escalation and mitigating circumstances
- Outline the necessary information to include in a discipline policy
- List the methods to communicate a discipline policy
- Define a progressive discipline process
- Describe the steps of a progressive discipline process
What Topics are Covered?
- Minimizing disciplinary issues
- Discipline
- Discipline policy
- Progressive discipline
- Step 1 – Verbal warning
- Step 2 – Written warning
- Step 3 – Performance improvement plan
- Step 4 – Termination
Supplement Material
A student manual is available for the learner to follow during the instructor’s presentation.
Benefits to the participants
The learners will look at the ways to minimize discipline issues as well as the steps of progressive discipline..
Course Evaluation
A course evaluation will be completed by the learners once the course is finished.
Note: The course outline may be subject to change.
