and small organizations and there is not one approach that is universal, but the most common approach is for the direct manager to have these conversations with “their” subordinates.

And by the way, I think it would have been classy for Kalani to be there and to help land him, but I don’t find it cowardly, or even surprising that he would have ARod do it. Further, why are we assuming Kalani didn’t have any involvement? It seems like on a team that thinks of itself like a family, that he would be very involved in trying to cushion the blow.