"This would be my first management role supervising other, so I have never had to issue discipline to an employee. However, in preparation for my first role in management, I have taken leadership development classes. One of the classes that I took was managing employee performance. In this course, I learned how to craft write-ups and how to coach employees on their performance. The most important thing I learned during this class was to get HR involved until you feel comfortable enough issuing discipline on your own. While I feel confident in my abilities, I would work with HR until I had more experience under my belt."