Getting laid off is traumatic — but layoffs also impact company leaders and employees who survive the cuts. Leaders must be prepared to advise layoff victims, but also survivors and managers, in order to turn the corner toward recovery and rebuilding.
The Bottom Line
Getting laid off is traumatic — but layoffs also impact company leaders and employees who survive the cuts. Leaders must be prepared to advise layoff victims, but also survivors and managers, in order to turn the corner toward recovery and rebuilding.
I. Introduction
Massive layoffs can demoralize employees and ravage even the most carefully-built company culture. After a round or two of extensive layoffs, those who are left behind take away the message that it’s time to hunker down, avoid taking risks and sacrifice creativity for the safe road.
Left untended, those attitudes can deal a death blow to an already struggling company. With layoffs becoming more common as traditional notions of lifelong loyalty between a company and its employees are upended, it’s vital to be prepare for the aftermath — and have strategies in place for how to rebuild and improve morale. As a business consultant for organizational leaders and executive teams, David Noer is an expert in working with companies to develop effective recovery plans.
In Healing the Wounds, he shares his most important takeaways about what employers and employees undergoing layoffs need to know in order to move on.
II. “Layoff Survivor Sickness”
III. Still Employed But Still Damaged
IV. Allow Employees to Grieve
V. Discourage Codependency
VI. Update the Employment Relationship
VII. Short-Term Solution Creates Long-Term Pain
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