About 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees: A Manager’s Guide to Addressing Performance, Conduct, and Discipline Challenges
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: 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.
- Complete Title: 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees: A Manager’s Guide to Addressing Performance, Conduct, and Discipline Challenges
- Format: Paperback
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 384
- Publication Time: June 25, 2019
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- ISBN: 1400212014
- ISBN13: 9781400212019
About Paul Falcone
Paul Falcone
Reviews 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees: A Manager’s Guide to Addressing Performance, Conduct, and Discipline Challenges
Some of this book is well and truly batshit. It’s hard to believe it was updated in 2019, because it is so behind the times and in some places, factually inaccurate. It’s like a window into 1995 (or e…
James
Great resource for managers. Wouldn’t recommend as a cover to cover read, but rather an as needed resource tool…
Jenny
An absolutely invaluable resource for managers. Provides guidance on everything from bad breath to violence in the workplace. You have to be careful about using the exact wording that the author does…
Ben
The author made it seem every employee will accept the solution and answer in the affirmative. This is not always the case. I’d like to read about the actions to take when the employee negates the sol…
Jose
To be fair this book is over 10 years old. That said, maybe some will find it helpful if they manage employees at a very traditional office. As a millennial manager in more of a tech industry, I found…
Rachel
Not sure if this is supposed to be a cover to cover read, but I found a lot of insight in all of these conversations. It has a lot of different scenarios ranging from how to approach an employee who h…
Peter
The book starts out well but goes downhill. The way of speaking to employees is dated and controlling, not suitable for today’s workforce, and honestly probably not when the book was released either…
Ben Lobaugh
This book would’ve been helpful if it highlighted the tough conversations going negative, but it focused on a perfect world where everything worked itself out. The writer seemed very narcissistic to…
Ashley Hall
The dominant tone (used in exemplified convos) in the book is quite polite, professional and empathetic, showing that employees are put in the centre of all convos. Though there are some irrelevant to…