How to Help Employees After a Downsizing
I was interviewed this week for “HR Wire” magazine about what to do to help employees through a downsizing. At the end of the interview, the writer told me that I was the only person she had interviewed who had talked about the importance of dealing with people’s FEELIINGS. She said that every other “expert” had simply talked about systems, processes, and the business aspects of returning to productivity.
I shared with her that several years ago Mike Stewart, a colleague and friend, and I developed a wonderful program called “FEELING your Way Through Change – Understanding and Managing Transitions in Life and Work” to deal with this very issue, and it has been highly successful in helping individuals and organizations work through many different kinds of changes in a much more healthy way, accounting for both the business and the human sides of change. (This program can be a keynote, half day or full day program.)
