Best Practices for Managing Downsizing

Many of today’s managers have never experienced the challenges of a major economic downturn and are struggling to deal with the reality of downsizing. This workshop gives you practical guidelines to help you gain insight and understanding into this very sensitive business imperative, as it will play out in your own environment.

Objectives:
The workshop is designed to help Human Resources Staff and Line Managers to work through the critical steps when downsizing to ensure the best possible outcome for all stakeholders:

• Developing the vision and strategy to take the organisation forward
• Deciding the criteria for selection of those who will leave the organisation
• Delivering the news to exiting employees
• Providing assistance to exiting employees
• Managing the communication to ongoing stakeholders – initial and ongoing, internal and external
• Ensuring employee engagement with the new vision and strategy

 

Workshop Outcomes
The workshop is highly interactive. Participants will engage in facilitated discussions and group exercises to address the following areas:

• Consultation and involvement during the downsizing process – with whom, about what, how much should employees be involved?
• Compiling the Redundancy Checklist.
• Providing the right sort of assistance for employees being made redundant – what do you have to take into account?
• The positive use of the principle of Audience Advocacy, i.e. understanding that to achieve a call to action the audience must be brought into equal focus with the Executive Team’s objectives.
• How to determine your staff’s wants, fears and needs.
• Compiling and delivering a compelling message, which will address your staff’s wants, fears and needs.
• How to manage difficult responses – emotion, anger, distress, disinterest and disengagement
• What to expect post announcement.
• Identifying and dealing with “Survivor Syndrome”.
• Understanding the critical responsibilities of the management team in the early stages.
• What is employee engagement, and how do you achieve it during this difficult phase and ongoing?
• The real costs of mismanagement of downsizing.
• The development of the Management Action Contract for downsizing.

 
In-House Option – we will come to you
This workshop can also be delivered in house and tailored to your specific needs. We will consult with you to determine which of the learning outcomes you wish to include in order to maximise the outcomes for your organisation and participants.

Please call Elizabeth Varley on (02) 9221 6422 for more information and indicative costing.

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