It is most HR professionals’ least favorite job; and for a lot of reasons. Terminations are never easy from an operational and emotional perspective and can be legal quagmire even when handled correctly. In this informative and interactive session, we'll review the fundamentals of sound disciplinary procedures, revisit the legal issues that any termination calls into play, and learn valuable and practical steps that we should all take to make terminations go as smoothly as possible - for the person being terminated and for the company. We'll also try to have a little fun with this topic and share together some of our worst termination stories. Attendees will be encouraged to submit their worst termination horror story to the presenter prior to conference. We'll select a few of these stories to use as case studies and brainstorm together how having handled things differently might have changed the outcome!