This Initiating Disciplinary Hearings Training and Managing Discipline Training programme is designed for Supervisors and Middle Managers who are:

• expected to ensure clear understanding and adherence to disciplinary standards within their area of responsibility
• and are required to discipline subordinates through verbal warnings and written warnings
• and ensure that poor performance is promptly addressed

Suitable for:  Supervisors and Middle Managers

Course duration:  2 days

NQF level:  5

Course content and outcomes:

• An introduction to the disciplinary process and its purpose
• Fundamental premises that should apply to all disciplinary action
• Typical causes of disciplinary problems and poor work performance problems
• What are the main causes of indiscipline and poor performance in your workplace? What can you as supervisors / managers do to remove these causes?
• 3 main causes of indiscipline and poor performance – how to correct them:
• Poor communication
• Unclear procedures, standards and rules
• Middle Managers styles of leadership and control

• Understanding your disciplinary code, and the procedures for performance and disciplinary meetings: counsellings, verbal warnings, written warnings, final written warnings
• How to carry out disciplinary and poor performance meetings, and issue the appropriate corrective processes and / or disciplinary warnings
• Role-play exercise on issuing a disciplinary warning for time-keeping
• Role-play exercise on issuing a counselling for poor performance
• Role-play exercise on issuing a written warning for poor performance
• Drafting a Performance Improvement Plan
• Setting up a date and time for review and follow up
• Initiating and leading evidence in disciplinary hearings

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