Avoiding Leadership Landmines: The Five Biggest Mistakes That Managers Can’t Afford To Make

Stop sweeping problematic conduct or substandard job performance issues under the rug

In this 75-minute webinar training, explore creative approaches to constructive confrontation with employees, including:

Avoid common leadership landmines that are often overlooked and trap unsuspecting leaders
Engage in tough conversations to address performance and conduct challenges early on – before they become a legal liability
Shift the responsibility for improvement away from the company and back to the employee

Engage employees to strive for self-improvement while insulating your organization from employment-related liability

Day in and day out, well-intended and hard-working managers step on “landmines” in corporate America that can have dire consequences – both for themselves and their companies.

Learn how to develop and implement a systematical and defensive approach that will protect you and your company. This workshop will raise your awareness, heighten your sensitivity, and help you build leadership confidence. Learn to rely on your internal guidance system and know when trouble may be at hand and when to escalate matters and seek legal counsel.

On March 17, gain leadership skills that will allow you once again to focus on the positive, offensive strategies to help build talent, increase productivity, and excel as a sought-after leader.

Agenda for Avoiding Leadership Landmines

The dangerous “preemptive strike.” learn how to “trust your gut” when it comes to escalating workplace problems and rallying your internal support team to your side.
The hidden trap of “talking off the record” and three simple caveats that can help you fulfill your responsibility as a manager without encumbering your company with “actual” or “constructive” knowledge burdens.
Engaging in “tough conversations” to address performance and conduct challenges early on, before they turn into insurmountable challenges, fraught with drama and legal liability.
Failure to document “disciplinary action” in hopes that a problem will “simply go away.” Constructive documentation invites employees to become part of the solution, while shifting the responsibility for improvement away from the company and back to the employee, where it belongs
Grade inflation on the annual performance review, the single most challenging element that time and time again will stand in your way as a manager in terms of terminating or laying off an otherwise substandard performer.

Interactive Q&A time included

Get solutions to your own leadership dilemmas from a leadership guru during our Q&A session.

Paul Falcone is the principal of Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Consulting, LLC, specializing in leadership and management training, executive coaching, keynote speaking, and facilitating corporate offsite retreats. Paul is the former CHRO of Nickelodeon, a long-term columnist for SHRM, and a bestselling author of 15 books with HarperCollins Leadership and the American Management Association, including the new five-book Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Series, 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees, 101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems, 96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire, and 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews.

Paul Falcone author, former CHRO of Nickelodeon, and a long-term columnist for SHRM

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