Documenting HR Issues

<p>Documenting HR issues is important for you as a leader and your organization as a whole. </p> <p>When I was at Marriott, I learned how to coach, counsel, and discipline employees. Documenting HR issues was part of the training that stuck with me the rest of my career. </p> <p>If you have any issue with an employee, you need to build a record of the history of the behavior in case it becomes a problem.</p> <p>Documentating issue gives you and the employee clarity to what is going on.</p> <p>Without documentation, both parties may have a different understanding of what the problem is, or if there is even a problem at all.</p> <p>When you hire new employees, let them know upfront you have a system to document HR issues. </p> <p>Document not only the issue but the consequences. </p> <p>And when you document consequences, you have to follow through. </p>