Event Details

Effective performance management and disciplinary practices have always been at the forefront of creating and maintaining a productive work environment. However, in the face of labor shortages, employers must now balance these practices against market expectations of workplace environment and the impacts of an employee-centric landscape in the tightest labor market the U.S. has seen in at least 20 years. In this presentation, Shayda Le will help employers refine their performance management processes through a lens that considers the heightened importance of workforce retention.

Some of the key topics that will be addressed include the following:

• Manager roles and responsibilities surrounding employee retention in the face of performance concerns
• Careful documentation and effective communication with employees
• Shoring up practices for performance management
• Tailoring discipline to business needs and market availability
• Best practices for change management and motivating employee performance

Speaker: Shayda Le, Partner at Barran Liebman LLP 

Shayda Le is a partner at Barran Liebman LLP, where she advises employers, management, and higher education institutions on a wide range of employment issues and litigation, including trade secrets, noncompetition agreements, wrongful termination, discrimination, policy review, workplace investigations, Title IX, and FERPA. Shayda counsels clients with the aim of providing efficient and proactive solutions, and carries that approach into litigating claims to resolution. In addition, she is experienced in workplace investigations and completed a certificate through the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI) Training Institute. Shayda conducts client trainings, and has served as an adjunct professor for graduate classes at Lewis and Clark College. Shayda earned her B.S. at Portland State University and her J.D. at Boston University School of Law.

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