InsightAction

To an employee losing their job means one thing: a difficult and sometimes traumatic life change. To the company's human resources staff and management it is a time of structuring the layoffs, supporting the exiting staff, reassuring the current staff, and trying to reduce the fallout. How layoffs are handled clearly shows a company's true integrity and values - even when there are financial constraints. Treating employees with respect, value, and appreciation for their work is in the best interest of everyone.

Our outplacement services include workshops, coaching, and motivational presentations:

The Career Transition Workshop

This is the core workshop for groups of employees who are being laid off.  Structured as one-, two, or three-day formats, the Career Transition Workshop is one of the most valuable, practical, and motivating outplacement offerings that a company can offer to its employees in transition. This program helps to provide an overall framework of possibility and an empowering and positive outlook for the employees. It will guide them through the key steps needed for focusing their efforts, developing an effective career strategy, creating powerful and effective resumes, learning key networking approaches and outreach skills, and interviewing skills, tips, and techniques.

The "Attaining Your Dream Job" Workshop Series

This workshop is designed to ensure that individuals in transition are provided with THE most important piece of the career search process: clarity on which jobs would be the best fit for them and that will lead to long-term, sustainable career success. This series provides a priceless opportunity: to shift from simply trying to "get a job" to developing a career path that is in alignment with one's core talents, gifts, and passions. This is a life-changing experience that turns a traumatic life event into one of excitement and possibility. It is both transformational and practical. The longer version of this series not only helps the individual to identify their ideal work, but supports them all the way to the finish line until they have attained their ideal job.

Individual and Group Career Coaching

This process is a unique combination of career counseling, support, and coaching that helps with not only the career transition but the life changes and personal impact that are part of the process. Most individuals are not working, and "in between jobs" experience many challenges: lack of direction, motivation, and focus; fear; lack of clear strategies; isolation; procrastination; etc. The coaching process combines support and motivation with effective action. This can be done with individuals or with groups.

"The Top 10 Steps to Create Your Ideal Career" Speaking Presentation

This 90-minute talk is a paradigm-shifting presentation that will move your employees from a negative perspective on their layoff to one of possibility, hope, and positive perspective. It provides key steps, powerful principles, and inspiring stories that will motivate your people to seize this time of transition as one of the most important - and even positive - ones in their life.

Key Outplacement Benefits

The Workshops and Coaching described above offer many benefits for you, your company, and the employees:

• Allows you to offer your exiting employees something of value and meaning to them. Something that will be helpful to them during this time. It helps to turn a traumatic life event into one of excitement and possibility.
• Shows that you care about them as a person and beyond the transaction-based severance pay. It is a tangible sign that you value the work that they produced while being a part of your company "family."
• It is a critical compliment to the often-offered career workshops and resume seminar. This is on the level of being life-changing, while traditional career transition services are often limiting, ineffective, and without real value to the individual.
• It is a significant step towards reducing the negative feelings that an exiting employee may feel or express towards your company. Rumors, slander, bad PR, online postings, and legal action can be very damaging (and costly) to a company's image with the public, with investors, potential hires, and current employees.
• It builds goodwill among current employees. Employees can truly see their worth to you when they see how you treat exiting employees.