Breaking the News: Laying Off Employees®

Key Features

CD-ROM based training module

The essential guide for managers who have to tell their employees that they are laid off.

Telling employees that they are laid off is a tough job. Few managers are prepared to deliver the news.

This CD-ROM will ensure that the managers who conduct the face-to-face meetings with employees will:

• be prepared with all necessary information
• organize their remarks so they communicate clearly
• understand the legal pitfalls and avoid them
• respond appropriately to employees' emotional reactions
• document the conversation thoroughly

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Fast, Effective Training to Insure Consistency Throughout the Organization

Breaking the News provides an engaging learning experience that will show managers how to prepare for this difficult meeting. Managers will be engaged by this CD-ROM because it addresses key issues, and provides solutions to problems and scenarios that they are likely to encounter before and during the layoff.

Breaking the News is an intensive CD-ROM course that will help managers focus their layoff conversation and preserve the dignity of the terminated employee. In 30 minutes, Breaking the News provides guidelines for structuring the conversation, video clips of typical layoff scenarios, and checklists that can be printed for easy reference.

Professional, Organized Layoff, with Minimum Impact on the Organization

Breaking the News enables managers to have an organized and professional conversation with the employee whose job is being eliminated. While it may not make the news any easier for the employee to hear, your manager will be in a position to answer questions and offer information that will be vital to the employee.

Being prepared and having answers will provide comfort to the terminated employee and reduce the emotional impact not only on the terminated employee, but on co-workers as well. Handling the layoff in a professional manner also positively affects the morale of the remaining employees and allows the company to resume productivity faster.

Establish Letter-of-the-Law Procedures to Insure Thoroughness and Preserve Dignity of All Parties

Breaking the News was reviewed by a leading employment lawyer for accuracy. Managers will be prepared to deliver the news of the layoff and avoid exposing your organization to costly legal proceedings.

Who Needs this CD-ROM product:

• Managers delivering layoff news to one or more employees
• Human Resource managers involved in the layoff conversations

Managers will learn what to do and what not to do when telling employees they are laid off.

What Breaking the News will do for you:

• Provide an insurance policy to minimize your company's exposure to lawsuits. Breaking the News will prepare managers for the layoff conversation and reduce the chance that they will make comments or agreements that could result in litigation
• Quiz managers on their grasp of the material before they meet with employees
• Insure consistent, professional handling of layoff meetings by all managers across your organization. Breaking the News will enable your managers to organize their conversations with affected employees and provide meaningful documentation of the layoff meeting
• Reduce stress on managers delivering the layoff news. Breaking the News will allow your managers to anticipate reactions of terminated employees and guide them through well-reasoned responses
• Highlight the information, policies and documents that are needed to effect the layoff preventing flustered, unorganized meetings

Training Modules

• Understand the Legal Ramifications
• Prepare for the Meeting
• Respond to Employees' Emotional Reactions
• Document the Conversation

Order Information

Order 100 copies or more and pay only $99 each.

For orders under 100 copies, CDs are $199 each* plus shipping and handling (overnight shipping available).

*All applicable state sales tax will apply.

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