How Outplacement Services and Good Communication Can Help You Avoid Costly Downsizing Mistakes.
Failing to communicate (enough) is often one of the key mistakes that employers make when having to downsize and make redundancies.
I’ve seen the impact of a lack of communication on many occasions with large scale change. In a small to medium sized business, it can be easy to make assumptions that people know what is happening as you all talk regularly, this isn’t always the case. When downsizing open, honest and timely communication is key.
Initial Communications
It can be tempting to keep your business problems quiet until you unveil the need to make redundancies. However, by talking about the business issues and requirement to cut costs early and more importantly why you need to, you can ask the employees to get involved in finding solutions.
If they understand the difficulty and the consequences of not changing, you’ll be amazed at the simple cost and time saving ideas they come up with that you haven’t even considered. Through exploring how to do things differently you may also find skills in the team you didn’t even know existed. All you need to do is ask and listen!
Communicating the outcome of the ideas implemented and their impact on cost / time savings is often missed, but is vital. Openly sharing these updates not only shows you’ve listened and done something with the ideas, but also helps your employees understand if the situation is improving enough to avoid further measures.
Once you have carried out this activity if there is still a requirement to cut head count, the employees will know that you have already tried to safe guard their jobs. It shows you care and are trying your best in challenging circumstances.
If you would like to read more about the right way to communicate to your people throughout the redundancy process, please click on the full blog: https://postly.app/3WaJ
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