Bad Manager. Bad Employee.jpg
Bad Manager. Bad Employee.jpg

Bad Manager. Bad Employee.™

$125.00

Repeated employee behavior is often a management outcome.

When an employee keeps missing deadlines, ignoring standards, creating tension, resisting correction, or forcing coworkers to compensate, the issue is not only the employee. It is also what management has clarified, corrected, documented, followed up on, or allowed.

This 60-minute clinic gives managers a practical correction structure for dealing with repeated performance and conduct problems before they become larger HR issues.

Managers will learn how to name the real behavior, reset the standard, hold the correction conversation, document the concern, and follow up with enough consistency that the employee knows the issue is no longer optional.

HR Director, Financial Services
“Seattle Consulting Group helped us put practical structure around difficult management conversations. The guidance was clear, direct, and immediately useful for managers who needed more confidence handling performance issues.”

Vice President, Operations, Manufacturing
“Jim’s approach is different from typical leadership training. He does not stay at the level of inspiration or theory. He gives managers language, structure, and standards they can use in real workplace situations.”

No-Risk Manager Training Guarantee

Attend the full clinic. If you do not leave with at least one clearer way to correct repeated employee behavior, reset expectations, document the concern, or follow up with confidence, contact us within 24 hours and we will refund your registration fee.

If you register and cannot attend live, you may transfer your seat to another person in your organization or request the session materials.

The next live clinic is July 15. A second session is available July 29 for managers and leaders who need a later date.

Date & Time:

Repeated employee behavior is often a management outcome.

When an employee keeps missing deadlines, ignoring standards, creating tension, resisting correction, or forcing coworkers to compensate, the issue is not only the employee. It is also what management has clarified, corrected, documented, followed up on, or allowed.

This 60-minute clinic gives managers a practical correction structure for dealing with repeated performance and conduct problems before they become larger HR issues.

Managers will learn how to name the real behavior, reset the standard, hold the correction conversation, document the concern, and follow up with enough consistency that the employee knows the issue is no longer optional.

HR Director, Financial Services
“Seattle Consulting Group helped us put practical structure around difficult management conversations. The guidance was clear, direct, and immediately useful for managers who needed more confidence handling performance issues.”

Vice President, Operations, Manufacturing
“Jim’s approach is different from typical leadership training. He does not stay at the level of inspiration or theory. He gives managers language, structure, and standards they can use in real workplace situations.”

No-Risk Manager Training Guarantee

Attend the full clinic. If you do not leave with at least one clearer way to correct repeated employee behavior, reset expectations, document the concern, or follow up with confidence, contact us within 24 hours and we will refund your registration fee.

If you register and cannot attend live, you may transfer your seat to another person in your organization or request the session materials.

The next live clinic is July 15. A second session is available July 29 for managers and leaders who need a later date.

Why Leaders Trust Seattle Consulting Group

Seattle Consulting Group is led by Jim Woods, CEO and President of Seattle Consulting Group, author of HR Unchained. Jim brings more than three decades of experience across leadership development, human resources, organizational development, manager accountability, and workplace performance. His work has supported organizations across corporate, government, military, education, and public-sector environments, including Fortune 500 and national organizations.

He holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Development and Human Resources and has worked with leaders, managers, HR professionals, and frontline teams on the practical workplace moments that shape performance, trust, accountability, and culture.

Seattle Consulting Group’s training is built for the realities managers face every day: unclear expectations, underperformance, repeated conduct issues, weak documentation, inconsistent follow-up, and the difficult conversations many organizations delay too long.

The work is practical, direct, and grounded in one operating belief: organizations do not build stronger cultures through slogans. They build them through clearer standards, better manager behavior, consistent follow-through, and leadership systems that make accountability possible.

Why This Clinic Matters

  • Most organizations do not struggle with bad employees only because the employee is difficult.

  • They struggle because managers wait too long, speak too vaguely, document too little, and tolerate patterns that should have been corrected earlier.

  • By the time HR becomes involved, the problem is often larger, more emotional, and harder to resolve than it needed to be.

  • This clinic helps managers respond earlier and more clearly.

What Managers Will Learn

Managers will learn how to separate a frustrating employee from a correctable management issue.

They will learn how to identify the repeated behavior, connect it to a clear work standard, prepare for the conversation, state the expectation, document the concern, and follow up without drifting back into avoidance.

The clinic focuses on practical manager behavior, not theory.

The Manager Correction Framework

Managers will work through a simple five-part structure:

  1. Name the repeated behavior clearly.

  2. Identify the standard that has not been met.

  3. Clarify what the manager has previously allowed.

  4. Hold the correction conversation with direct, professional language.

  5. Document and follow up before the issue becomes normalized.

Who Should Attend

This clinic is designed for managers, supervisors, team leads, department heads, HR professionals, employee relations leaders, operations leaders, and executives responsible for improving manager accountability.

It is especially useful for organizations dealing with repeated employee behavior, uneven manager follow-through, weak documentation, inconsistent standards, or employees who have learned that correction is unlikely.

You Should Attend If

  • You have managers who complain about difficult employees but delay the conversation.

  • You have employees whose behavior keeps resurfacing.

  • You have documentation gaps.

  • You have teams frustrated by one person’s repeated conduct or underperformance.

  • You have managers who need a clearer way to correct behavior without becoming harsh, vague, or avoidant.

What Participants Leave With

Participants leave with a practical correction structure they can use immediately.

They will understand how to move from frustration to clarity, from vague feedback to specific standards, and from one-time conversations to consistent follow-up.

They will also receive a manager correction checklist they can use before and after difficult employee conversations.

Seminar Agenda

Opening: The Management Pattern Behind Repeated Employee Behavior
Why recurring employee problems often reveal what managers have allowed, avoided, or inconsistently corrected.

Part One: Name the Behavior
How to separate personality complaints from observable behavior that can be corrected.

Part Two: Reset the Standard
How to state the work standard clearly enough that the employee understands what must change.

Part Three: Hold the Correction Conversation
How to correct behavior directly without overexplaining, apologizing, or turning the conversation into a debate.

Part Four: Document and Follow Up
How to capture the issue, expectation, next step, and follow-up date in a way that supports consistency.

Part Five: Know When to Escalate
How managers should recognize when repeated behavior has moved beyond coaching and requires HR or senior leadership involvement.

Registration

Bad Manager. Bad Employee.™
A 60-Minute Manager Correction Clinic

Wednesday, July 15, 2026
10:00–11:00 AM MT | 12:00–1:00 PM ET

Wednesday, July 29, 2026
10:00–11:00 AM MT | 12:00–1:00 PM ET

Reserve Your Seat

Attendance Guarantee

If you register and cannot attend live, you may transfer your seat to another manager in your organization or request access to the session materials after the clinic.