Leading Through Layoffs with Empathy and Transparency with Nicole Blevins

HR expert Nicole Blevins discusses navigating layoffs with humanity and professionalism. She emphasizes exploring alternatives first, creating fair selection processes, having managers lead termination conversations rather than HR, providing resources and support to departing employees, and maintaining transparency with remaining staff to address survivor guilt and preserve organizational culture.

Key Timestamps

• [00:45] - Nicole explains HR's role in layoffs and the importance of handling them with compliance and empathy
• [02:54] - Discussion of who initiates layoff conversations and exploring alternatives first
• [05:25] - How to address employee rumors and maintain transparency during budget challenges
• [08:17] - Nicole's coaching process for clients facing layoffs, including fair selection criteria
• [10:28] - Best practices for layoff conversations - why managers should lead, not HR consultants
• [13:35] - Approaches for conducting terminations with humanity and respect
• [15:33] - Providing resources and support tools beyond the final day
• [18:36] - Managing cultural impact and survivor guilt among remaining employees
• [22:56] - Final advice for organizations facing their first layoff situation

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