• Conduct a counseling session with the employee regarding his
Internet usage. Most companies can produce a complete record of
each employee’s emails, both personal and work-related, for a period of 1 month to 1 year. A similar history of Internet sites visited is easy to obtain. Again, be sure to check with human resources or legal counsel before proceeding. Sitting down with an employee and going over that usage is all some people need to turn their behavior around. Why?

Amazingly, some employees still don’t know that Big Brother can see and record everything they do on the Internet. They may still be under the impression that instant messaging (IM) is untraceable. They are wrong. The embarrassment that some employees feel when their messages are revealed is enough to make them swear off IM on the company computer. Revealing the sites that they have visited, particularly pornographic or gambling sites, gives some employees the wake-up call they need to abandon this destructive behavior.

The counseling session should loosely follow this agenda:
1. Open with the strengths the employee has displayed in the past.
Describe what you value in this employee. He will need this to
support him as the brutal truth emerges later.

Taken From: 201 Ways to Turn Any Employee Into a STAR Performer