Author, motivational speaker and communications expert Colette Carlson combines theory with hands-on experience to give you the success tools you can put to work immediately.

If you hire or fire employees, your success or failure as Gatekeeper critically affects not only your group’s long-term organizational goals but everyone’s day-to-day functioning. You take a big risk when you hire a new face. And if your hopes for that person are disappointed by bad work habits (or strange social habits), you face an even bigger risk in deciding to cut them loose.

The decision to hire or fire isn’t a mysterious art … it’s a step-by-step science. There’s a right way and many wrong ways to do both. But supervisors and HR professionals continually make simple mistakes that put their organizations at risk and torpedo their own personal reputations.

Saying “I didn’t know” about recent employment-law changes is no defense against a lawsuit that can sink your organization … and your career. No matter how quickly laws change, your CEO expects you to protect your organization.

In this 75-minute conference CD, nationally noted employment law attorney Jonathan Landesman will steer you through the intricacies of FMLA, keeping you in compliance and out of trouble. You will get insights on:

This national audio seminar lays out a step-by-step guide for everyone—even the nervous, pushy, impulsive or tongue-tied—who wants to negotiate a better deal in the office, in the boardroom ... and in life!

Do your supervisors know the 10 illegal job-interview questions that can result in legal action? Or which words written in performance evaluations are almost GUARANTEED to trigger discrimination lawsuits?