A disciplinary counseling session is a meeting between a supervisor and employee.
It may focus on a specific work place incident, or may be the result of a performance appraisal.
The counseling process may be initiated and executed by the supervisor and is not considered disciplinary.
It is an opportunity for face-to-face communication between the supervisor and the employee, conducted in private, and is intended to have a constructive goal of providing feedback to the employee to correct the problem.
[1] Counseling is an important supervisory skill required as often as any other interaction facing the supervisor.