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Episode 142: What to Actually Say When Letting Someone Go
The Three-Part Script for Letting Someone Go
Letting someone go is never easy. Leaders often make the conversation harder by delaying it, overexplaining it, apologizing for it, or opening a debate about a decision that has already been made.
In Episode 142 of Leadership Sandbox, Tammy J. Bond gives leaders a clear, humane three-part structure for communicating an employment termination:
State the decision.
State the fact-based reason in one sentence.
Explain what happens next.
Tammy explains why the real difficulty is often the month of avoidance leading up to the meeting—not the brief…
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