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Teaching students how to terminate an employee in a safe, legal, and humane manner provides them with a valuable management skill. This article describes an exercise for teaching students how to conduct termination meetings, guiding them through the process of creating a termination script that is consistent with best practices from the literature. This exercise also helps students develop confidence and enhance their skills by role-playing the termination meeting and responding to the interpersonal challenges of such meetings.

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termination discharge dismissal separation difficult workplace conversations interpersonal communication experiential learning

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