Redundancy and outplacement coaching

Helping employees as they prepare to leave your organisation

Making redundancies in an organisation can be a stressful and unsettling experience for the employees at risk as well as line managers and HR who have to take their employees through the process. The Life Bureau offers a beneficial and practical coaching service that will help your organisation and your employees as you go through the period of change and uncertainty.

How it Works:

When redundancies are handled badly they leave employees feeling bitter about the experience and the way they have been treated. They will speak badly of the organisation and are unlikely to want to return or to recommend the organisation to people they know. Handled well and the opposite is true. The outplacement coaching programme is designed to offer employees support, encouragement and advice as they prepare to leave your organisation.

Employees can participate in group or personal coaching sessions to help them to focus on their goals. Coaching sessions can be used to explore new avenues, plan what to do next and create a strategy on how to get there and used to build confidence, highlight opportunities and increase self-awareness of the skills your employees have to offer the marketplace. If employees want to focus on the practicalities of job hunting, then they can benefit from workshops on interview skills and CV writing or use their one to one coaching sessions to gain some interview practice or to review their CV.

Who is it for?

This programme is aimed at any employee at risk of redundancy, where the employer wishes to provide a personal level of support to prepare the employee for their next step. It is also aims to provide support to line managers and HR during the process.

Participants will:

Learn how to see the change as an opportunity
Identify and clarify their personal goals
Create an action plan to meet their personal career goals
Start to focus positively on the next steps
Increase their confidence
Have a chance to voice their concerns and talk things through with the support of somebody independent of the organisation
Identify options for the future and explore new possibilities
Identify their skills and abilities in terms of what they have to offer their next employer
Learn how to become more marketable at interviews
Gain the necessary skills and techniques to help them to secure their next role

Benefits to the organisation:

Encourages employees to take ownership of their situation
Helps employees to deal with personal issues that may affect their performance at work
Frees up the time of your managers and HR team
Encourages decisions to be made and action to be taken
Identify solutions to work-related issues
Provides independent support to those at risk of redundancy, managers and/or HR.
Gives the employee a positive exit from the organisation
Increases employee commitment and satisfaction during the change period

Example Package 1:

Group Coaching session for 4 - 6 participants (approx 2 hours), followed by 2 x 1 hour personal career coaching sessions and 3 weeks of email support.

Example Package 2:

Initial coaching session (1 hour), followed by 2 x 1 hour personal career coaching sessions and 3 weeks of email support.

Personal career coaching sessions could include:

Tailored Interview practice with feedback
CV Review
Career Values exercise

Packages can be tailored to suit the needs of your organisation.

Also available:

To book: Contact Marcia Cave on 020 79788375 / 07940 544290 or Email: marcia@thelifebureau.co.uk.