How to Fire Someone Well

The meeting itself takes about fifteen minutes. A firing goes wrong in the weeks before it and the day after it.

The decision was never quite made, there was no file to stand on, the first sentence came out soft, and the team was left to make up its own story. Each of those can be prevented with preparation.

This course works through the sequence in the order you meet it. You test whether the decision is real, name the kind of problem you have, build a one-page file and know when to get advice. You write the four-part script, run a short meeting that holds under pushback, and then handle the first day, the team and the retro that makes the same exit less likely next time. Employment law differs by country, so the course gives you the method and shows you exactly which local rules to check: hearings, notice, final pay, protected situations and layoff duties.

You walk away with a decision sentence, a one-page prep checklist, a four-part script, a first-day owner table and a team message you can adapt.

Who it's for

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

Founders: have to let someone go without an HR team and need it to be calm, fair and clean for the people who stay.

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