101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees provides guidance for managers on how to broach uncomfortable conversations across a wide range of issues.

Inappropriate workplace conduct, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, productivity and communication issues . . . these are just a few of the uncomfortable topics supervisors must sometimes discuss with their employees.

Top human resources author Paul Falcone offers realistic sample dialogues managers can use to facilitate clear, direct interactions with their employees that help sidestep potential awkwardness and meet issues head-on.

This practical, solution-oriented book walks you through some of the most common and most serious employee problems you are likely to encounter.

In 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees, Falcone covers topics including:

• substandard performance reviews,
• progressive disciplinary warnings and termination meetings,
• FMLA abuse and ADA accomodations,
• wage and hour challenges,
• team turnarounds,
• compensation conflicts, and more.

This handy guide helps you treat their people with dignity and respect, focusing not just on what to say but also on how to say it. It provides proven techniques you can use to protect yourself and your organizations–and get the very best from your people.

This trusted reference puts thousands of ready-to-use words, phrases, descriptions, and action items right at your fingertips — perfect for review time, creating development plans, and monitoring performance year-round.

Whether you’re an HR professional or a manager, chances are there’s one task you really dislike: giving performance reviews. Even if you know the basic points you want to get across, finding the right words and committing them to paper is about as much fun as a trip to the dentist.

However, this book puts the correct words within your hands with phrases that managers, supervisors, and HR professionals can use to properly evaluate performance.

In 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews, renowned career expert Paul Falcone covers the 25 most commonly rated performance factors including:

• productivity,
• time management,
• teamwork,
• decision making, and more!

Falcone also shares job-specific parameters that apply in sales, customer service, finance, and many other areas. 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews is useful not just for review time but will also be instrumental in creating job descriptions and development plans as well as monitoring performance, progress, and problems year-round.

People power your business–and success can hinge on your hiring, inspiring, and keeping the right ones. As a manager, are you cultivating this vital resource? Is there more you could be doing? Are you just winging it? Every HR executive has a laundry list of things they wish managers knew: best practices that would enable the entire organization to operate more effectively…transforming those managers into exceptional–and highly promotable–leaders. Now in this accessible and practical playbook, HR expert and author Paul Falcone shows readers how to: Identify the best and the brightest talent – Hire for organizational compatibility – Communicate constructively – Address uncomfortable workplace situations – Create an environment that motivates – Retain restless top performers – Reengage your team after a layoff or during times of adversity – Skillfully conduct performance reviews – Take corrective action – Sidestep litigation landmines – Delegate in a way that develops your staff – And much, much more From recruiting to retaining, 75 Ways for Managers to Hire, Develop, and Keep Great Employees has all the advice you need to overcome your toughest people challenges.

PUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN PLACE THE FIRST TIME with the help of scripts, templates, and tools you can apply immediately, from the leading voice in HR expertise.

Paul Falcone, author for 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Your Employees and renowned hiring, performance management, and leadership development expert, walks you through the challenges you’ll face during the interviewing, hiring, and onboarding process.

This quick guide to Effective Hiring:

• Offers new interpretations of candidate responses to the most often used interview questions.
• Identifies red flags in the candidate assessment process, such as unrelated responses to questions that delay getting to the answer to your question.
• Provides leaders who often struggle to meet crucial HR demands with simple tools to guide them through effective interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.

Getting the best employees on board is one of the most crucial and difficult jobs of leaders and human resources professionals. This book provides quick, reliable information on how to hire effectively.

LEARN TO HANDLE EMPLOYEE CORRECTIVE ACTIONS LEAGALLY AND ETHICALLY

A quick-guide to legally and ethically mastering progressive discipline and structured termination, from the leading voice in HR expertise.

Paul Falcone, author of 101 Sample Write Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems an renowned HR and leadership expert, breaks down the best practices for progressive employee discipline and structured terminations into easy-to-understand steps that will help you avoid common legal and ethical pitfalls.

Leadership Defense answers practical, legal, and ethical questions surrounding employee discipline and termination, including how to:

• Conduct an exit interview
• Protect my company from negligent hiring or termination claims
• Terminate a long-term employee with a history of positive performance evaluations
• And much more

This quick-guide offers easy-to-implement solutions that make the often-feared task of employee discipline more approachable and easier to navigate.

An accompanying checklist is available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

MASTER EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

Ready-to-use quick-guide to streamline employee reviews, create effective career development plans, and monitor year-round employee performance.

Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have with Employees and renowned HR and leadership expert, gives you powerful scripts and templates you can apply immediately to your employee reviews and development conversations.

Along with key tactics for appraisal, motivation, and professional and career development, Leadership Offense:

• Reduces the time it takes to complete employee reviews by offering sample phrases for key performance areas.
• Gives you the framework and language for concrete and constructive feedback.
• Hones your ideas for evaluations and development plans with examples of employee behaviors, strengths, and opportunities.

This handy, quick-guide turns a task many managers dread–giving performance reviews–into a positive opportunity to hone your leadership skills and guide your employees to the path for success.

Accompanying templates are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

MASTER YOUR ROLE AS AN EFFECTIVE MANAGER

An accessible and practical quick-guide that will help you develop your skills as a manager from Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have With Your Employees and renowned HR and leadership expert.

Being a good manager is not a natural skill for anyone, but it’s an easy-to-learn discipline that will allow you to develop a strong team and create an environment that amplifies the skills of everyone on your team. This book breaks down the basics of each aspect that new managers struggle with most.

New Managers covers key leadership topics facing any manager, including:

• Coaching and Mentoring Employees
• Inspiring Employee Engagement
• Fostering Teamwork to Encourage Innovation
• Mastering the Art of Active Listening
• Becoming an Effective Communicator
• Establishing Key Metrics to Drive Business Forward
• How to Create a Positive Relationship Between Yourself and HR
• And, Much More

This quick-guide is an indispensable resource that will guide managers of all levels in becoming their team’s favorite boss.

Accompanying templates are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

LEARN TO NAVIGATE COMPLEX EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT ETHICAL CHALLENGES

Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have with Employees, teaches you the leadership principles that cultivate an ethical workplace and legally protect your company.

Ethical challenges ranging from designing a diversity and inclusion strategy to creating a process for handling harassment allegations or establishing an employee discipline or termination process can overwhelm even senior leaders. This quick-guide walks you through these and many more critical ethical challenges you’ll face when managing a team and workplace.

Workplace Ethics provides solutions for:

• Facing common ethical challenges in the workplace and offers quick pointers to help you navigate those situations.
• Understanding The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 affects your team and meeting SOX obligations.
• Educating employees how they can foster an ethical work environment at any level.
• Identifying failing diversity and inclusion initiatives and how to fix them.
• Mastering the tools needed to ethically manage your team and legally protect the company.

This quick-guide will help you cement your reputation as a selfless and emotionally intelligent leader who sets high expectations and achieves exceptional results.