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Roles and Responsibilities of Managers
Focus on rebuilding your team: Be visible; Reinforce business reasons for changes; Talk about your vision of the future; Revisit your unit’s strategy and action plans for coming year(s); Be positive and yet don’t invalidate their concerns; Communicate new information immediately; Tell them if there’s no new information and be willing to say “I don’t know, but I’ll try to find out.”
Managing Your Team Through Changes at Work
Managers may have to cope with their own reactions to the layoff and may not be able to respond appropriately to employees until they have taken time to handle their own reactions. If one of your employees is laid off, the workplace will be disrupted. Change in the workplace has become a way of life. As a manager or leader, you are challenged to maintain performance under chaotic conditions. Here are some helpful references to help identify, understand, manage, and minimize stress for both you and your staff, during challenging transitions:
- Remind Employees of Your Employee Assistance Program – If your organization has an employee assistance program, encourage employees to use it. These programs can help if people are experiencing personal, emotional, or financial problems.
- Conduct In-house Workshops – Hire speakers to present workshops on topics such as reducing stress and managing finances. These are topics that are particularly important to employees today.
- Promote Work Life Balance – Remind employees that during stressful economic times it is important for them to be supportive of their families. Urge them to use their vacation time and spend time with their families.
- Discuss Changes in Job Duties With Staff – Depending on the restructure, certain aspects of remaining staff’s jobs may change as well. Keep close track of any changes that will be made to job descriptions and work with the SHR Compensation and Classification Team to verify those changes are possible.
Additional Resources Through Learning & Development
After a Layoff: How to Cope at Work When Coworkers Lose Their Jobs
What to expect when you survive a layoff Population: Remaining Coworkers and team leaders
40 Minutes
Managing self and others through layoffs. Layoffs are difficult for everyone—even those still employed after a round of layoffs. Even if you were retained, after an initial feeling of relief, you might start to feel confused, sad, and apprehensive about the future—which are all totally normal feelings to be experiencing. The key is in how to process and move forward.
Managing Organizational Change for Managers
Population: Managers helping teams adjust to change
1 Hour 22 Minutes
Employees want to know what their manager thinks about change. In fact, people are more likely to listen and follow a direct manager than anyone else in the organization. Discover strategies to remove the discomfort of change, communicate change to different groups, reinforce skills, leverage performance management, and sustain planned changes, both large and small.
Other instructor-led classes that are offered in regular rotation by Learning & Development: Check Learning and Development calendar for availability.
Managing Organizational Change & Other Opportunities
This workshop explores traditional and current definitions related to change, the dangers of change in organizations, strategies for successful change and the concept of failing forward for organizations that are experiencing difficult change events.
Managing Stress and Building Resilience with Mindful Presence
In this instructor-led class, participants will review frameworks on stress and resilience, and learn awareness of how your body, emotions and mind respond. Capstone includes the development of a self-care and resilience plan.
Psychological Safety
An offering for managers who seek to develop trust and safety in their teams. Learn to recognize the major components of a safe space and how it benefits teams. Learn what boundaries managers can implement while still supporting growth and innovation.