Redundancy | Embarking on restructuring and redundancies? Career coaching can ease the pain.

When downsizing occurs, you’ll want to make sure remaining employees feel valued and supported. Find out how career coaching for all can help — from assisting managers on the front line of the redundancies, to ensuring the rest of the team gains confidence and resilience in the face of change.

Periods of downsizing are never easy — particularly for the individuals being let go. That’s why most companies strive to ease the transition for affected employees as much as possible, by supporting them in finding their next opportunity and providing severance packages to reduce the financial impact. But, how many consider how redundancies can affect the rest of the team that remains?

Neglecting to address the concerns of the wider employee base can have a negative effect on an organisation already reeling from the impact of the redundancies. As downsizing activity continues to increase, with 92% of organisations expecting to take some downsizing action this year, it’s important to ensure that remaining employees are fully supported before, during and after these events.

Since restructuring will affect each employee differently, a blanket, one-size-fits-all approach to supporting them won’t fully address the needs of the team. Instead, organisations that adopt a career coaching programme, in which all employees can access a professional coach of their choosing, will be better prepared to emerge from the downsizing more successfully. With a professional coach on their side, change doesn’t have to be negative; in fact, many may soon find stretch assignments or new internal job opportunities by working with a coach.