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Jan 3, 2023 · By encouraging your remaining employees to participate as well, you can help create an environment of empathy and solidarity while giving everyone a constructive way to move forward together. 3 ...
- Dave Wilkin
- Communicate with Clarity
- Instill Trust to Safeguard Motivation
- Offer Outplacement Services
- Re-Instill A Sense of Purpose
- Approach Challenges as Opportunities to Grow
- Stay Focused on Employee Engagement
In down times, ambiguity is the enemy and creates disengaged employees. Ambiguity leads to conflict and discouragement because employees are left to fill in the blanks at the very time they are feeling most fearful and uncertain about their jobs. Work diligently to remove as much ambiguity as possible from your organization by: 1. Over-communicate ...
Reductions in force during uncertain times, like downsizing or furloughs, can do a number on your teams. If you’ve had to lay off your employees, you may end up spending more time adjusting organizational goals, team priorities, and individual workloads than helping your business grow and succeed. To avoid further disengagement and turnover, make s...
Outplacement services like career coaching, employment services, and upskilling are initiatives that show you empathize and truly care about your people and speak to your wider strategy in terms of change management. Remember, redundancies are also part of the employee journey, and how your organization and management approaches layoffs should also...
Too often during an economic downturn, leaders require less “buy-in.” That is, they begin to expect and accept less from their employees. “Since I can’t give you a great raise, I guess buy-in is optional.” Many leaders believe that engagement levels and happiness come from a lack of stress at work, when in fact they come from teamwork, accountabili...
We know that diamonds are rocks under pressure. Give your employees time and attention, and encourage teams to tackle these challenges as a growth. The greatest development does not come from just training, it happens when employees are trusted with a challenge and are supported and coached accordingly. Make your commitment to employee development ...
Changes due to redundancies may severely impact employee engagement and productivity levels and can be assessed by asking: 1. Are your high performers keeping up with their performance compared with the change? 2. Did employees’ perceptions of their intent to stay at the organization change? 3. Are we still able to achieve our strategic goals and m...
- Nikki Edwards
Oct 27, 2016 · Leaders of reorgs typically fall into one of two traps when communicating with their employees. We’ll call the first one “wait and see” and the second “ivory-tower idealism.”. In the first trap, the leader of the reorg thinks everything should be kept secret until the last moment, when he or she has all the answers.
Here are seven strategic frameworks and actions HR needs to implement: 1. Staffing considerations. Strategic framework: Effective staffing during restructuring involves assessing current and future organizational needs, identifying gaps, and making adjustments to the workforce accordingly. Actions for HR:
Oct 13, 2021 · A year and a half into the pandemic, employees’ mental “surge capacity” is likely diminished. Managers must take proactive steps to increase employee engagement, or risk losing their ...
Sep 6, 2024 · One powerful engagement technique is to convene a broader group of change agents and empower them to determine their own way of engaging employee groups. In McKinsey’s recent survey on transformation success , organizations where respondents reported that their leaders modeled the same behaviors they asked employees to exhibit were 1.6 times more likely to report outperforming their peers.
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Reorgs can be a great way to unlock value: Two-thirds of them deliver at least some performance improvement, and with change in the business environment accelerating, they are becoming more and ...
