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COVID recovery - public

Releasing people with compassion and professionalism

Nobody wants to terminate the employment of staff, but there can be occasions when it is unavoidable. As business leaders we have a moral duty to be professional and, as far as possible, compassionate.

In this free paper you can gain insights into :

  • Ensuring legal compliance
  • Selecting staff for retention and for release
  • Preparing your managers
  • Carrying out meaningful consultations
  • Making terminations
  • Offering effective outplacement
  • Rebuilding an effective organisation

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Paper: Outplacement in an Online World

In an economy shaped by increasing globalisation, disruptive Internet businesses and fast-changing consumer preferences, redundancies are a fact of business life.

So what are your options when you have to let good people go? How can you balance financial drivers with the ethical and leadership imperative to help loyal staff who you can no longer employ?

Download our free paper, Outplacement in an Online World, to read about the financial and organisational justification for outplacement, as well as the options available in our online, self-service society.

To see other, related resources please visit our Covid Resources page. Or if you would like to discuss any aspect of this with us, please call 0121 663 1710 or email info@workhorizons.com

Download the paper

If you need to reduce headcount following COVID this paper may help you consider practical options for helping those who are affected by redundancy.

Paper: Outplacement in an Online World

Emerging from Lockdown: A Checklist for Managers and HR

No matter how grave a situation, leaders need to always look ahead, learn and plan for the future. Based on our experience in senior management and HR roles, we have drafted a checklist to help plan how your people and organisation will need to respond as we return to the new normal.

If your organisation has multiple functions, divisions or operates in numerous territories, it may be more effective to run through this checklist separately for each for them.

This document is divided into several sections:

  1. Immediate priorities
  2. Organisation Renewal
  3. Employment and Redundancy
  4. People Status
  5. Returning to Work
  6. Seeking support

To see other, related resources please visit our Covid Resources page. Or if you would like to discuss any aspect of this with us, please call 0121 663 1710 or email info@workhorizons.com

Download the checklist

Please download and use this checklist to support your organisation, division or team. You may distribute it freely amongst colleagues and partners. Tip: If you are using Adobe Reader (including the free edition) you can add notes, comments and other marks to PDF documents on your PC.

Checklist: Emerging from Lockdown

Leading out of COVID: Managers’ Checklist

This is one of a series of checklists for business leaders and managers, focused on emerging safely from the COVID crisis, avoiding issues around employment law and rebuilding teams that are motivated and ready to take the business forward successfully.

This document is divided into several sections:

  1. General considerations
  2. Effectiveness of internal communications
  3. Building resilience
  4. Wellbeing and wellness
  5. Dealing with a second wave
  6. Seeking support

To see other, related resources please visit our Covid Resources page. Or if you would like to discuss any aspect of this with us, please call 0121 663 1710 or email info@workhorizons.com

Download the checklist

Please download and use this checklist to support your organisation, division or team. You may distribute it freely amongst colleagues and partners. Tip: If you are using Adobe Reader (including the free edition) you can add notes, comments and other marks to PDF documents on your PC.

Checklist: Leading out of COVID

Learning Capture Template

As individuals in your organisation respond to the COVID-19 crisis and customers’ changing needs, they are learning an enormous amount about adapting themselves, their teams and the organisation. This kind of learning is extremely valuable, if you invest in capturing and sharing it. Here are some questions to reflect on and a template to record your thoughts:

  • Give yourself the gift of a few minutes over a cup of coffee, using these questions as prompts to help your thinking.
  • Consider doing this on your own, with a colleague or your team.
  • Be creative about how you do it: pen and paper, Post-it notes on the wall or using this template in a virtual meeting.
  • Repeat the exercise as change continues: once a day, once a week or once a month.

With your external environment changing fast, this will help build on your learning quickly and effectively. Consider how the output from this timely thinking can feed into your future planning.

Questions to support learning capture

  • What has worked well recently? What did you do that made it particularly successful?
  • What have others done that helped?
  • What systems or processes helped?
  • What got in the way?
  • If there was something that could make it even better next time what would it be?
  • What are you going to do differently over the coming weeks
  • What else could you put in place to help continue this forward movement?

To see other, related resources please visit our Covid Resources page. Or if you would like to discuss any aspect of this with us, please call 0121 663 1710 or email info@workhorizons.com

Learning-capture template

Download this template which includes the questions as above and a handy sheet for gathering answers. It can be printed for your own use but is also optimised for using collaboratively on a Teams/Meet/Zoom call.

Learning-capture template (pptx)