Category: Leadership

Emotional challenges in dismissals: A short guide for HR

Dismissal can mean a deep cut for those affected. Conducting termination interviews is a balancing act. Finding the right balance between personal openness and professional conduct is no easy task.

Not to be forgotten: The Survivors

Many stakeholders are often taken into account in separation management, but the focus is usually on those directly affected and the decision-makers. The remaining employees (survivors) often receive too little attention, even though they are crucial to the company's success, especially in times of crisis.

Positive effects of a successful separation culture

Whether it concerns dismissals or professional restructuring: Separations should neither be feared nor avoided. Instead, a positive separation culture offers the opportunity to manage difficult situations constructively, promote personal development and take professional relationships to a new level.

The human side of separation management

In today's working world, restructuring and the associated dismissals of employees are widespread. Managers, HR managers, terminated employees and survivors all face different challenges during separation processes.

Common mistakes in termination interviews

Finding a new job seems to be difficult or even impossible for many people over the age of fifty - an assessment can help.

How can you create an appreciative separation culture?

Our experts Michael Hasler and Abdullah Redzepi explain how companies can handle their separation processes fairly and respectfully and establish a separation culture.

Separation culture and boomerang employees

Using the potential of these returnees to combat the shortage of skilled workers.

Why does my company need a separation culture?

There are many reasons why separation culture should become an integral part of the employee lifecycle and a corresponding corporate culture.

What is good leadership?

Is it possible to make a general statement here? To make a long story short: We think so - yes. Good leadership can be defined and measured.

Giving notice: How do I tell the employee?

Having to tell someone that they will soon no longer have a job is probably not an easy task for most people. A guide to giving notice fairly, emphatically and as clearly as possible.