Description

Build the confidence, clarity, and compliance know-how you need to handle workplace transitions with professionalism and genuine care.

Letting an employee go is one of the most demanding responsibilities in human resources. Handled the wrong way, a single termination can shake company morale, dent your brand, and create real legal exposure. To get it right, HR teams and people managers need a firm grasp of both the right moves to make and the missteps to steer clear of.

This practical and engaging session — Handling Employee Exits with Care: A Leadership Playbook for the Modern Workplace — walks you through the proven practices, legal guardrails, and key takeaways for managing terminations the right way, both legally and ethically.

Areas Covered in the Session

• At-Will, Government, and Contract employee separations explained — how each one differs and what to do in each case
• A walk-through of company termination policies and the various grounds on which terminations occur
• A look at the federal and state laws that govern wrongful termination claims
• Checklists to run through before you initiate a termination
• Ten guiding principles for running the termination meeting itself
• Severance packages, releases of legal claims, and unemployment benefit claims — what to weigh for both one-off terminations and broader layoffs
• Legal responsibilities after the exit, plus the topic of workplace violence

Background

Letting employees go is a delicate area of HR that has changed considerably over time, driven by shifting employment laws, evolving social expectations, and the changing nature of business itself. Today, employers face growing pressure to manage these transitions in a way that satisfies legal requirements while still preserving a healthy company culture.

Why Should You Attend?

People in a range of organizational roles stand to gain from joining this Handling Employee Exits with Care: A Leadership Playbook for the Modern Workplace session — and for good reason. To start, the training arms HR practitioners, supervisors, and company leaders with the understanding and capability needed to work through the legally tangled process of letting an employee go. It walks attendees through the legal compliance pieces that matter most, helping shrink the organization's exposure to legal claims and other liabilities.

Beyond that, this session helps cultivate a work environment built on fairness, openness, and compassion, even in the toughest separations. You'll come away knowing how to handle the termination meeting with poise, easing emotional tension and protecting workplace morale. The session also tackles what happens after the exit, from reference inquiries to preventing workplace violence — both essential for the safety of the company and its people.

In today's climate, where public perception carries real weight, this session gives you the tools to defend your organization's reputation by managing terminations with integrity and within the bounds of the law. Those who join finish the training with the assurance, insight, and hands-on skills to run terminations well, lower legal risk, and protect the respect and welfare of everyone involved — a positive outcome for the workforce and the company alike.

Who Will Benefit?

• Small Business Owners
• CEOs
• CFO
• Company President
• HR
• Leaders
• Managers
• Team Leaders
• Project Managers
• Department Heads
• Supervisors and anyone in a Leadership Role