Sysadmin noob question regarding user's off-boarding. Experiences needed.

Hi r/sysadmin!:

I work at a really small company (15 users). My job description says "I'm the IT guy", but since no one is really helping me doing some IT related jobs, i'm now on full control of the daily IT operations.

I'm my last job, the off-boarding (taking equipment from users, and the regular papers they have to sign), was managed by my boss. Yesterday i had my first experience with this kind of situations, i feel really awkward saying them i need to take their equipment away from them.

Do you guys have come with some generic speech or something? what do you do in cases like this one?

Later this afternoon, i'll have to repeat this with another user. And i'm kinda nervous.

As you can tell, i'm sure , i am not so experienced with this.

I'll be happy to read some of your expertise.

Thanks