How to handle lay-offs the right way
From the hiring process and onboarding, to outplacement and offboarding, every step of the employee life cycle is important and must be treated with care and diligence. In recent weeks,…
How to handle lay-offs the right way
How does unemployment affect mental health?
Mental health may have spent many years shrouded in mystery and stigma, but in recent years, it has been brought to the front of the world’s mind and rightly so.…
What can we learn from Telstra’s job cuts?
Redundancies are all too common – it’s one of those unfortunate truths that, sometimes, organisations need to cut jobs in order to restructure and survive in the future. Everyone knows…
How to make your employees love you after they leave you
image credit: https://goo.gl/mZOjP3 We all know that the first few seconds are critical in making good first impressions. But research shows that both the most emotional and the last…
10 Tips on How to Treat Surviving Employees After a Round of Layoffs
Here are 10 best practice tips I advise employers when they are faced with the unpleasant task of retrenching or making their employees redundant. These tips will help to preserve…
How to Personally and Clearly Lay Off Your Staff
The Power of Personally Laying off Staff BMWs are fine on the road. But “Bitching, Moaning, and Whining” can be avoided at the water cooler or on gossip sites like…
How to Give Notice to Your Staff
image credit: http://goo.gl/F2ks9M One of the most challenging times to be a Manager is giving staff notice that their job is no longer required. These difficult conversations can be…
Laying off staff? Consider these cost saving options.
image credit: http://www.hysterectomy.org/ Redundancies, retrenchments, layoffs are more often the result of pressure from the Executive or Board to reduce costs than from the business having less work to…
Creating High Staff Engagement Following a Layoff
image credit: http://goo.gl/QUwxZb Successfully deal with fears, uncertainties, doubts and guilt What is often overlooked in the chaos and emotion of a layoff is how to communicate with the staff…
How to Effectively Handle Layoffs
image credit: NY Daily News Redundancies and retrenchments of any scale are fraught with issues Layoffs are hard. Even a small-scale retrenchment or redundancy can present a seasoned HR professional with numerous issues…