📖 Today’s lesson
Lesson 17: Use it to map the ground, never to reach the verdict.
A model can lay out what a fair process requires, what evidence would be relevant and where the gaps are. It cannot weigh credibility, and it must never be the thing that decides an outcome about a person.
Why this matters: Employee relations cases go wrong through missed process steps and unexamined assumptions, not through a lack of opinions. Mapping is genuinely useful; deciding is yours alone and, increasingly, a regulated act.