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Career Management & Outplacement
WorkLife Design provides a range of career services for the organization as well as for individuals.
- Planning and conducting single terminations or major downsizings so there is as little disruption to your organization as possible.
- Outplacement services that produce the desired results for both the organization and the exiting person.
- Career development for individuals or groups to explore internal or external career options.
- Assessment services to help decision-makers know where a person best fits within your organization.
For the organization . . .
Part of being an employer-of-choice and keeping the best people involves taking actions that show people – in a real and meaningful way – that they matter. This includes supporting the career interests and needs of your people, and assisting them when they must exit.
At WorkLife Design, we have more than 25 years experience with mergers and acquisitions, downsizings, business closings, and individual discharges. Our experts will review your situation and help you create a strategy that honors the needs and interests of the organization and the people affected, and results in positive outcomes for all. Our specialists can . . .
- Review the need for downsizing or termination,
- Evaluate risk factors for the organization and individuals,
- Train managers on conducting announcement and exit meetings,
- Coordinate activities and create an announcement schedule,
- Create ‘scripts’ for leaders to use when talking to groups, individuals, or the media,
- Establish internal career centers and coordinate job fairs or other services, and
- Provide thoughtful and caring outplacement services for those exiting the organization.
Done right, a downsizing, closing, or discharge can result in positive outcomes for all involved. With WorkLife Design, you can expect . . .
- Reduced risk of litigation,
- Increased recruiting status,
- Positive presence within the community during a difficult time,
- Reduced stress for decision-makers, and
- Meaningful assistance for those who must exit (which positively impacts remaining employees as well!).
During difficult times, WorkLife Design helps you help your people – with the honor, dignity and respect they all deserve!
The Manager’s Pocket Guide® to Downsizing With Confidence.
Leading In Tough Times (HRD Press, 2003)
For the individual . . .
In today’s marketplace, the bottom line is this: each person must be skilled in managing their own career.
Consider . . .
What’s most important to me?
Where do I want to be in 5, 10, 15 years?
How do I want to live?
What options are available to me?
What do I want to be when I ‘grow up’?
Your WorkLife Design coach will help you explore these and other critical questions, then help you move from thinking to action, from job hunting to JobGetting™!
Our career coaches can help you assess where you are at in your career, set up strategies to get you where you want to go, and evaluate the results of those strategies. Your WorkLife Design coach will help you . . .
- Identify what you do best and most enjoy doing,
- Explore values, environment, and lifestyle goals,
- Identify career and job options,
- Position yourself effectively in today’s marketplace
- Resume’ writing or critique,
- Prepare for interviews
- Write strategic letters and plan followup activities
- Network effectively
- Negotiate offers
- Stay energized during the JobGetting process,
- Start off on the right foot in your new position
- Explore self-employment as an option
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