Leading After a Layoff: Reignite Your Team's Productivity...Quickly

By Ray Salemi

Help your team survive the damaging effects of a layoff
Learn how to keep the company running and profitable--and your team motivated and happy

Being laid off from a job can be devastating. The experience can be just as brutal for the manager of a surviving team. You need to lead your team to higher productivity just as low morale, survivor guilt, and confusion are at their peak.

You need a twelve-week program that brings your team back to life and makes them less vulnerable to layoffs

With Ray Salemi's twelve-week recovery plan, you'll learn the secrets of bringing employees back from the organizational-and emotional-turmoil of downsizing. Rebuild Trust: Create a bond of loyalty with your team members that can't be affected by layoffs. Survey the Damage: Assess the needs of the department and company.Lead So Others Will Follow: Help your team take ownership of its recovery and place in the organization.Foster Emotional Recovery: Help your team members heal themselves with simple techniques.

Let Salemi mentor and guide you through the step-by-step development plan that takes groups in complete disarray and rebuilds them into highly functioning teams.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007163715X
• ISBN13: 9780071637152
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Leading After A Layoff

Ray Salemi provides concise, step-by-step techniques to assist managers and supervisors deal with the aftermath of running a business or department after a layoff has occured. This book is specific in it's approach to what's helpful and what's not in dealing with issues such as communication, morale, next steps, etc. for the leader responsible for picking up the pieces. A good read, not just for managers and supervisors, but anyone who may be concerned about the effects of layoffs.

Highly Recommended !

Author Ray Salemi's neat little book offers excellent advice on how to get through "the worst of times." Management treads thin ice after layoffs. Everyone is sensitive and even the smallest error in dealing with colleagues can be magnified. When productivity drops, frustration naturally sets in. Salemi points out the most serious land mines managers should avoid. He focuses on the needs of mid-level managers and project team leaders, rather than those higher up the executive food chain. The book's advice, while sometimes basic, will substantially bolster the emotional intelligence quotient of the average manager coping with the awkward post-layoff period. We strongly recommend this book to managers who have avoided the layoff purge and now need to rally the stunned survivors.

Leading After A Layoff

Leading After A Layoff is a well-crafted book that will prove particularly useful to company leaders looking to keep their company and staff focused and energized after they have gone through a resizing, rightsizing or even downsizing. The information is delivered with clarity and from experience. Ray Salemi's background and experiences come through in the book and I suggest this book for anyone anticipating a layoff in their company's future.