My CEO Life

The cold hard reality of life for all businesses is that, from time to time, people need to be let go.

Recently i chatted with one person that was made redundant.  Her description of the process was “I was notified I was being made redundant, and immediately frog-marched out of the building. I wasn’t even given the opportunity to collect my wedding photos off my desk. It was all rather disrespectful.”

The above is an example of a company that is not approaching the letting go of people in the right manner.  How should companies handle this most difficult of times?

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I recently heard about a manager who called all his staff in for a meeting about the future of his part of the business.  As he went through the presentation, he talked about a new, more efficient structure.  The problem was, the new structure left off a bunch of existing people.  These existing people immediately asked “where am i”.  To their surprise, they  were told that their roles where no longer needed and the manager wasnt sure if they would have a job after 30 June.  Now this doesnt appear to  be the smartest approach to the problem of how to tell someone they dont have a job any more.  What is the impact of this approach and how could that manager have handled it better?
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