Identify the failure points in humane downsizing decisions most likely to cause loss, and control them first.
Making Redundancy and Downsizing Decisions with Professionalism and Humanity
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to humane downsizing decisions.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Most failures in humane downsizing decisions trace back to a conversation someone avoided having. Teams read what their leaders tolerate on this area of organisational leadership far more accurately than what their leaders announce. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting the wider organisational leadership agenda, ready to be adapted internally. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with humane downsizing decisions. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a leadership plan for the practice within organisational leadership as they go. Comparative studies of this strand of organisational leadership across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Ambition around humane downsizing decisions outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. The course sets out a working method for the organisational leadership capability that participants can apply the week they return. Work concludes with a self-assessment of this aspect of organisational leadership that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Compare the organisation's handling of humane downsizing decisions with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.
Build the internal capability for humane downsizing decisions rather than depending on external support indefinitely.
Communicate the reasoning behind humane downsizing decisions, not only the conclusion.
Build the trust that makes candid feedback about humane downsizing decisions possible.
Resolve conflict about humane downsizing decisions without leaving residue.
Make decisions on humane downsizing decisions at the right speed for the risk involved.
Who Should Attend
Managers of geographically distributed teams handling humane downsizing decisions.
Newly promoted managers taking on humane downsizing decisions for the first time.
Founders and owner-managers formalising humane downsizing decisions as the organisation grows.
Human resources partners advising leaders on humane downsizing decisions.
Coordinators responsible for keeping records and documentation of humane downsizing decisions current.
Analysts producing the data on which decisions about humane downsizing decisions rest.
Course Modules
Humane downsizing decisions: performance, standards and consistency
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Applying the standard on humane downsizing decisions to your best performer
- Decide the point at which you would escalate humane downsizing decisions.
- Build the internal briefing that explains humane downsizing decisions to those affected.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in humane downsizing decisions.
- Identify your successor for humane downsizing decisions and the gap they need to close.
Session 2Saying the thing about humane downsizing decisions that nobody wants to say
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for humane downsizing decisions.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when humane downsizing decisions underperforms.
- Check whether incentives anywhere reward behaviour that undermines humane downsizing decisions.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on humane downsizing decisions.
Humane downsizing decisions: delegation, trust and accountability
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Delegating humane downsizing decisions without abandoning it
- Confirm that reporting on humane downsizing decisions reaches the people who can act.
- Recognise publicly one person whose work on humane downsizing decisions went unnoticed.
- Set the decision rights on humane downsizing decisions: who decides, who is consulted, who is told.
- Rehearse the briefing on humane downsizing decisions that would follow an incident.
Session 2Showing that humane downsizing decisions changed something measurable
- Assess the workload humane downsizing decisions adds and what you will remove to make room.
- Decide what you will delegate on humane downsizing decisions and what you will not, and say why.
- Ask the team what they think is wrong with the plan for humane downsizing decisions.
- Prepare how you will respond when humane downsizing decisions is challenged publicly.
Humane downsizing decisions: building the bench and letting go
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who answers for humane downsizing decisions, and to whom
- Write down the reasoning behind your position on humane downsizing decisions.
- State the outcome expected from humane downsizing decisions in a single sentence anyone can repeat.
- Draft the minimum viable leadership plan for humane downsizing decisions.
- Check that records of humane downsizing decisions answer the questions likely to be asked.
Session 2Where humane downsizing decisions typically breaks, and why
- Identify which function can quietly block humane downsizing decisions and address it directly.
- Set the review point at which humane downsizing decisions will be reconsidered.
- Identify the conversation about humane downsizing decisions you have been postponing, and schedule it.
- Confirm that those complying with humane downsizing decisions understand why it exists.
Humane downsizing decisions: influence across functions you do not control
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What your team concludes from how you handle humane downsizing decisions
- Name a single owner for each element of humane downsizing decisions.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about humane downsizing decisions.
- Remove steps in humane downsizing decisions that add effort without adding assurance.
- Agree the smallest change to humane downsizing decisions that would be visibly useful.
Session 2Keeping humane downsizing decisions alive after the initial push
- Name the person accountable for each part of humane downsizing decisions, not the committee.
- Rank the weaknesses in humane downsizing decisions by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Review a past decision on humane downsizing decisions and state honestly what you would change.
- Estimate the resource humane downsizing decisions requires to run as designed.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- Workshop or Program Participation
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- Customized Badge
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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