Employee documentation
Write It Down
Turn vague employee notes into factual records with context, the employee’s account, and a clear follow-up.
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Publications by Jon Orozco
Meet the authorHandle the people issue.
Build the system behind it.
For HR leaders, managers, and founders. Practice the situation in front of you, then establish a clearer way for the work to happen.
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Practice documentation, decisions, delegation, and meetings. Choose your paperback below.
Field manuals
Write clearer records, prioritize a crowded HR case queue, and lead former peers. Work through situations, examples, and exercises you can use on the job.
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The Operating Library
Put policies, manager conversations, Ai adoption, and meeting routines into a shared way of working. Start with one manual or a focused track.
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100 manuals, available individually, in focused tracks, or as the complete library.
What needs to work differently this week?
Start with one problem and one move you can practice. Each field manual includes workplace situations, worked examples, reflective coloring plates, and tools you can return to. Try a sample before choosing your book.
HR department of one
Solo HR
Move competing requests out of your head and into a visible case queue with priorities, owners, and next steps.
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First-time managers
Promoted Over Your Peers
Move from coworker to supervisor with clear boundaries, consistent work decisions, and conversations you have practiced.
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Decision-making
The Decision Field Manual
Move a stalled decision toward a clear call: name its owner, weigh the stakes, and record the reasons and next actions.
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Delegation
The Delegation Field Manual
Give delegated work an owner, a clear outcome, and decision boundaries so every question does not have to return to you.
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Meetings
The Meetings Field Manual
Turn a vague meeting into a session with a purpose, an intended result, and next actions with owners and dates.
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Difficult conversations
The Difficult Conversations Field Manual
Move from rehearsing a hard conversation to preparing a clear opening, listening question, and next step.
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Selected operating manuals
Build the systems behind the work. Start with these selected manuals for HR policy, manager conversations, Ai adoption, and the rhythm of a working team.
HR Policy Starter Kit
When policies live in scattered files, establish a shared starting point. Nine policy templates, rollout guidance, gap assessment, and counsel-engagement tools help you plan the work.
Explore this volume →Manager Coaching Scripts
When a manager does not know how to open a difficult conversation, give them language to prepare. Use coaching scripts to clarify expectations, listen, and agree on follow-up.
Explore this volume →First 90 Days of Ai
When Ai use grows faster than your rules, plan the first ninety days of implementation. Establish priorities, oversight, and a sequence your team can review.
Explore this volume →Meeting Operating System
When meetings repeat without moving the work, define the cadence, capture decisions, and assign follow-up. Build a routine people can return to each week.
Explore this volume →A useful move before you open the book.
Each article teaches one move you can try: replace a label with a fact, give a handoff clear authority, or prepare a difficult opening. The matching book gives you more situations to practice.
Employee documentation
Employee documentation: write the fact before the label
A practical way to replace vague employee notes with observable facts, the employee’s account, and a clear follow-up.
HR department of one
Solo HR: triage the casework before the queue takes over
Make competing HR requests visible with an urgency check, qualified routing, and a next action someone owns.
First-time managers
Promoted over your peers? Start by naming what changed
How to make responsibilities, fairness, and friendship boundaries clearer when you become the supervisor of former coworkers.
Decision-making
Before another meeting, name the person who owns the decision
Separate input from authority and capture a decision so the same call stops returning to the agenda.
Delegation
Delegation needs an outcome, authority, and a check-in
A clearer handoff for managers whose delegated work keeps coming back for permission or repair.
Meetings
Five lines that make a meeting invite earn its place
Give a meeting a purpose, intended result, decision owner, preparation, and stop time before it reaches the calendar.
Difficult conversations
Prepare the opening before the hard conversation
Move a difficult workplace conversation from repeated rehearsal to clear preparation, listening, and an owned next step.
Build the system around the practice.
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