How to Fire Someone Well

Most managers postpone the firing for months, then handle the actual meeting so badly it haunts the team for a year.

A termination goes wrong in predictable places: the decision was never clearly made, there was no file to stand on, the wrong words came out under pressure, and the team was left to invent its own story. Each failure compounds the next.

This course walks the full sequence a manager actually faces. You learn to confirm the decision is real before you act, build the documentation file before the meeting, write the one sentence you will say out loud, and run the conversation without making it worse. Then it covers the part most training skips: the first 24 hours, telling the team without starting a fire, and fixing the system that produced the exit so you are not back here in six months.

Who it's for

First-time managers: face a termination they have been dreading and want a process they can trust under pressure.

Founders: have to let someone go and need it to be calm, defensible, and clean for the rest of the team.

Team leads: want to handle the meeting and the days after it without losing the trust of everyone who stays.