Hi, first time manager here (been a manager for a year) and I need to let someone go next week for the first time. Any tips or advice on how the conversation goes or what I should say would be appreciated.

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Hopefully HR will be with you with all the necessary termination paperwork. I don’t think this is sonething you should try to improvise, you need to have clear, direct, legally sound reasoning and examples like low performance or behavior/discipline as the catalyst. Good luck - not fun.

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One of the absolute worst things to have to do. I’m so sorry. You definitely need to have HR with you or at least another member of leadership. You should never do it alone. If you are in a state where you can record the conversation and your company allows. It do it. In our state as long as one person is involved in the conversation they can record it. It’s really impossible to tell you how to conduct it because there’s so many different ways that can go, and I always have to base it on exactly how the conversation goes. The biggest thing I can say is make sure you’re empathetic but straightforward.

askHR to train you on it

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