Make Job Loss Work For You, by Richard S Deems, PhD and Terri A Deems, PhD, JIST Publishing, 2010.

Chapters include –

What Can I Expect Now?
(Features the Deems Job Loss Reaction Cycle)
What Do I Do Now?
What Do I Have to Offer?
What Are My Options?
What About A Resume?
How Do I Interview Successfully?
How Do I Find and Respond to Job Openings?
What Is the Deems JobGeting Skills™ System?
How Do I Negotiate The Final Package?
How Do I Get Started In My New Job?

 

Leading In Tough Times : The Manager’s Guide to Responsibility, Trust, and Motivation, by Richard S Deems, PhD and Terri A Deems, PhD, HRD Press, 2003.

Section One –

Principles to Lead By
Lead the Way
Know Yourself
That Vision Thing
Mindfulness
Engaging Others
Re-energizing Work
Ethics, Values, and Integrity

Section Two –

Leaders In Action
How Do I Lead Others Through Change?
How Do I Handle Layoffs and Downsizings?
What If I’m Asked to Do Something Illegal?
What Can I Do When the Company’s in Financial Trouble?
How Do I Restore Confidence?
How Do I Motivate People in Tough Times?

 

Downsizing With Confidence, by Richard S Deems, PhD and Terri A Deems, PhD, HRD Press, 2007.

Get straight forward answers to the 12 most asked questions about downsizing…

Why should we worry?
What are our real needs?
How much planning time do we really need?
How do we select who goes?
What can we do to show that we’ve been fair?
How – and what – do we tell the people who will exit?
How do we tell the people who will remain?
Do we do it all at once or in phases?    
What about the media?
Is career transition assistance really necessary?
What if we need some of these people in nine months?
Now what?

 

Hiring: How to Find and Keep the Best People, by Richard S Deems, PhD Career Press, 1999.

The Step-by-Step secrets of effective hiring.

Why hiring will make or break your company
Identify what you really need
Strategies to recruit the best
Prepare for the interview in five steps
The Interview:  Get the information you need
Stay on the right side of the law
Evaluate and select with confidence
How do I handle the unexpected?
Keeping the best
Interview Planning Guide

 

Making Change Work For You! By Richard S Deems, PhD an International Best-Seller, originally published by AMI, 1995, Copyright by Richard S Deems, PhD. 

What’s going on in your life?
What we know about change
Strategies for Making Change Work
Why people react differently to change
Managing the stress that comes with change
How work teams react to organizational change
How work teams can survive downsizing
Your Action Plan for making change work

 

How To Fire Your Friends, By Richard S Deems, PhD,Media Publishing, 1989, Runner-up for Book of the Year Award from SHRM in 1990, the all-time classic book on the termination process. 

Why should I worry?
What happens to people who lose their jobs?
What are the general policies and procedures?
What about severance?
How do I terminate an individual?
What about downsizings?
What about options to termination?
What about outplacement?
How do I handle my own stress?

WorkLife Design's outplacement manual is being revised for publication in late 2009. We'll keep you posted when No Sniveling - How to Turn Job Hunting Into JobGetting! is released.