Have falling sales created a crater that threatens your business survival?

Are you struggling with the consequences and the need to implement, or consider implementing, redundancy programmes?

Are you desperately looking for innovative solutions?

Well, the great news is that you have come to the right place - my new human capital management solution will help you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

A significant decline in sales leaves a gaping hole to be filled and you know, if you cannot fill it quickly, you have to find ways to reduce costs in order to compensate. You are also well aware of cash flow and other pressures that demand you take action quickly and, because people costs are one of your biggest expenses, it seems entirely reasonable that you should reduce headcount in order to meet this objective. After all, if you have less business, you need less people to service that business, right?

The problem is that business is like a rubber band and the time will come when your sales will improve and you will need those people again. Of course you recognise this and thus that redundancy programmes are not in the best long-term interests of your business. On top of that, they are unpleasant and ultimately serve to prolong the cycle, compounding the very problems you are trying to solve.

So why consider them when your head and heart are both telling you otherwise? We need to ensure we aren't simply running with the crowds when we consider mass layoffs.

Perhaps your business survival makes redundancy programmes and mass layoffs unavoidable, but if they are, you owe it to yourself and everyone in your organisation to ensure that:

1. You have considered every possible alternative to redundancy. (Do you even know of all the viable alternatives?)
2. You have a logical and reasonable process and let go the right people.
3. You keep reductions to an absolute minimum and minimise the impact as far as humanly possible.
4. You evaluate the long-term implications properly.
5. You know and understand the value of the people being dispensed with and that the decision is economically and commercially justified, in the same way as it would if any other corporate asset was being disposed of.
6. You take steps to ensure the people who remain are engaged and positioned to help secure survival and ensure future success.

I am Bay Jordan, author of "Lean Organisations Need FAT People: How to Grow Your Human Assets" and "A Feeling of Worth: A Manifesto for Mending a Broken World" and the founding director of Zealise Limited, and for the last 5 years I have been exploring the value of people to the organisation and how to keep them fully engaged. During this time I have developed a unique innovative solution to this highly topical question and am confident that, while it doesn’t itself address the problems that layoffs are supposed to resolve, it will provide you with:

• A basis for a deeper analysis and more thought about the implications than ever before.
• A platform to strengthen the case for alternative measures and a catalyst to make those measures more effective, ensuring people are fully engaged to help the business survive.
• The means to minimise both the short-term impact and the long-term consequences on your organisation.

Download my FREE guide now to learn how this innovative human capital management solution could help you, whether you have already made mass layoffs or are still contemplating them. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain - just fill in the form below:

 

 

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