CARE and CONTROL: A Better Approach to Terminations

Key Features

21 minutes VHS or DVD video; closed captioned

Purchase includes a leader's guide.

This program offers key training points for terminating employees.

Terminations have become a much-talked- about fact of corporate life. Do them the right way, and there's only minimal workplace disruption. But do them the wrong way, and the organization's bottom-line profitability and reputation can suffer.  

Care and Control How-To Training Points:

• Use the CARE and CONTROL approach when conducting terminations
• Learn how to terminate due to performance or downsizing
• Treat exiting employees with respect and empathy
• Control the tone of the termination meeting
• Plan and rehearse for the termination
• Use broken-record phrases to stay in control
• Help remaining employees and customers adjust positively to the change

Care and Control: A Better Approach to Terminations is a video-based program that can teach your managers how to terminate employees using CARE and CONTROL .Based on research from Dr. Richard Deems, an expert on termination, this video shares with your managers the specific steps to the CARE and CONTROL approach to terminations.

The emotions can be completely different when firing due to performance and terminating due to downsizing. But the CARE and CONTROL approach to termination has key steps that can be used in either situation. Your managers can learn how to show that they care and how to control the termination discussion.

Care and Control: A Better Approach to Terminations is a complete termination-training program. Simple, effective steps are outlined for each termination step-preparation, conducting the termination interview, follow-up documentation, helping employees and customers adjust, and even legal suggestions for fair and equal progressive discipline and documentation.

Help your managers learn the most effective termination approach-CARE and CONTROL. And show your employees that your organization really does care about how its employees are treated.

I Have to Fire Someone! book
by Richard S. Deems, Ph.D.
Dortothy was worried--she had to fire a staff member. She knew it would bring major change to that person's life--and she wondered what type of reaction she'd get. Somehow, relying on her intuition or trying to read the other person didn't just seem workable this time. The firing process was almost as hard on her!

I Have to Fire Someone! shares effective, adaptable strategies for making termination easier on the employee, managers and supervisors, and the organization. You'll gain insight on how to terminate due to poor performance or downsizing. You'll learn how to respond to employee questions and reactions.

How-To Training Points:

• Assess the risk of litigation in termination
• Answer the "what if" questions for difficult situations
• Address other termination factors and concerns

Click here to view the Care and Control Training Leaders Guide.

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