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Elizabeth Varley
Managing Director
(02) 9221 6422
evarley@chall.com.au
Narelle Hess
Organisational Psychologist
(02) 9221 6422
nhess@chall.com.au
Carmen Mackrill
People Services Consultant
(02) 9221 6422
cmackrill@chall.com.au
Mary Turnbull
People Services Manager
(02) 9221 6422
mturnbull@chall.com.au
Patricia Hegarty
Senior Account Manager
(02) 9221 6422
phegarty@chall.com.au
A Best Practice Guide to Strategising and Managing Effective Downsizing
Challenge Consulting presents this comprehensive best practice guide to strategising and managing effective downsizing in your organisation.
Only a year ago, employers were investing heavily to attract new staff to deal with critical skills shortages. Today, employer focus has shifted to downsizing initiatives to ensure business survivial. However, if your organisation does not carefully plan and consider the consequences of downsizing initiatives you could suffer unbearable damage through all levels of your organisation.
Challenge Consulting's Best Practice Guide is for organisations that:
- are anticipating a downsizing initiative
- are in the midst of a downsizing initiative
- have come out of a downsizing initiative and need to look to the future
- would like to understand more about downsizing as an initiative
- need to understand more about how individuals are affected by downsizing initiatives and how to best support them.
The handbook provides information on:
- The business case for downsizing effectively
- Best practice downsizing
- Achieving downsizing objectives
- The role of senior leadership and Human Resource Managers in the downsizing initiative
- Alternatives to minimise redundancies
- Genuine redundancies
- Ensuring compliance to redundancy legislation
- Understanding emotions of the exiting employees
- Understanding the emotions of the remaining employees
The handbook provides the following practical tools:
- Template on downsizing strategically
- References on professional or legal redundancy advise
- Guide on selecting the redundant job positions
- Template of a downsizing action plan
- Guide for tailoring the redundancy announcement
- Guide for assessing the grievance of the exiting employee
- Guide for choosing an appropriate outplacement provider for the exiting employee/employees
- Guide for outplacement service options for the exiting employee/employees
- Guide for support options for the remaining employees
Through this best practice guide, Challenge Consulting aims to provide your organisation with a key resource to ensure the success your downsizing initiative. Available for $145 + GST per copy (inc. postage and handling in Australia). For a confidential, no obligation discussion about how Challenge Consulting can make a positive contribution to the success of your business, please contact Narelle Hess (nhess@chall.com.au) or Hetal Doshi (hdoshi@chall.com.au) on (02) 9221 6422. Our accredited Career Transitioning Coaches will facilitate solutions for both your organisation and your exiting employee which are professional, sensitive and effective. Click here for information on our Outplacement Programs This workshop gives you practical guidelines to give you insight and understanding into this very sensitive business imperative, as it will play out in your own environment. Click here for information on the Best Practice Downsizing Workshop
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Best Practice Downsizing Workshop
