downsizing Archives

After the layoff: How to support your team when it just got smaller

by Karin Hurt | Dec 12, 2022 | By Karin Hurt, Courageous Cultures, culture | 0 comments

Practical Tips to Help You and Your Team Heal After a Heartwrenching Layoff My LinkedIn feed and email inbox are filled with news of layoffs and reorganizations causing unexpected career turbulence. And I’ve had more than a few phone calls from really talented...

How to Support Your Team During an Unexpected Layoff

by Karin Hurt | Apr 13, 2020 | By Karin Hurt, Courageous Cultures, Relationships | 2 comments

The Emotional Throes of an Unexpected Layoff My heart has been breaking all day. I’ve been doing the best I can with the onslaught of phone calls, emails, and texts from incredible leaders in the emotional throes of an unexpected layoff. “I’ve been...

5 Reasons Not to Be a Jerk When an Employee Resigns

by Karin Hurt | Jun 3, 2019 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Courageous Cultures, Winning Well | 2 comments

How you treat your employees on the way out the door may have more impact than you think. What do you do when an employee resigns? I’m not sure exactly why this is a thing, or if it’s getting worse in a tight economy. But lately, my phone has been lighting...

How to Help Your Team Recover After a Downsizing

by Karin Hurt | Jan 29, 2019 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Commitment | 4 comments

Being a manager in the midst of downsizing is hard enough. There’s the initial shock, the communication, the “I wonder if I’m impacted too” angst, and of course, the really painful decisions involved in selecting who will go. What’s...

5 Things to Do When Your Team is Downsized

by Karin Hurt | Jun 1, 2015 | By Karin Hurt, Career & Learning, Employee Engagement & Energy, Results & Execution | 17 comments

Your team is downsized. Now what? First let me say, I’m so sorry. I know how difficult this is to cope with as a leader. In fact, there was one dark point of my career that I received that dreaded call every quarter for two years. By the end of that run, I had...