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Paul Falcone

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 and 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:

 • Mediate employee disputes and engage in healthy conflict resolution strategies
 • Avoid the preemptive strike of “pretaliation” against unsuspecting managers or supervisors
 • Address attitude problems and stop bullying in its tracks
 • 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 book 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.

John Behrens

HarperCollins Leadership

The Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Series

Leadership Defense: Mastering Progressive Discipline and Structuring Terminations

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.

New Managers: Mastering the Big 3 Principles of Effective Management: Leadership, Communication, and Team Building

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.

Workplace Ethics: Mastering Ethical Leadership and Sustaining a Moral Workplace

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.

Leadership Offense: Mastering Appraisal, Performance, and Professional Development

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.

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The Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Series - The book series

The Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Series books in order

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