Termination with Dignity

How to Terminate Employees While Respecting Human Dignity (Click on the image to download the pdf booklet)

If you lay off one or more staff members, what impact will that have on those who remain? Will productivity—and the bottom line—suffer? Are you likely to lose your best people who will worry about their positions? Or will morale increase because you handled the terminated employees with dignity?

This booklet can help. Here are a few points to remember:

• Allow separated employees a “decompression period” in familiar surroundings. Let them have some control over how they leave. If possible, let them finish tasks they want to finish and make arrangements for keeping in touch with co-workers.
• A kind word helps during the dismissal meeting. For example, “George, you’ve been a trooper. I’m sorry that the organization has moved in a different direction.”
• Give your employees the kind of outplacement that gives them dignity while positioning them for the future.

HR managers are realizing that Five O’Clock Club outplacement is more effective and less expensive. The remaining employees feel better knowing that their fellow workers receive a full year of coaching help.

Based on 14 years of research, our cost effective corporate packages include private coaching that far exceeds what

How to Terminate Employees While Respecting Human Dignity (Click on the image to download the pdf booklet)

traditional outplacement firms offer, as well as one full YEAR of group coaching. That is—again in contrast to traditional outplacement firms— people may return to us if their new job or consulting assignment has not worked out.

An outplacement package can cost as little as $2000. Our “premier package,” for those earning over $100,000 per year, includes 14 hours of private coaching as well as 1 YEAR of small group coaching for only $5,000. At traditional outplacement firms, people usually get 3 months of space and phones, but only 5 hours of coaching, the service job hunters need most. The quality of traditional outplacement has declined as coaches are overloaded with short-term clients, handling three times the caseload of previous years.

“Separated Professionals and Managers Prefer The Five O’Clock Club”

Time and again, the Five O’Clock Club is the provider of choice. In a recent downsizing of 19 professionals and managers (whose salaries range from $35,000 to $150,000), all 19 were given a choice between the Five O’Clock Club and a major outplacement organization. Fourteen chose The Five O’Clock Club. We were able to offer 8 hours of one-to-one coaching and one year of small group coaching, along with books, tapes and other materials. The major outplacement firm was offering 3- and 6-month packages depending on seniority.

Employees consistently choose expert career coaching over the space provided by traditional outplacement firms.

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Richard Bayer

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