Just got notified that I have to take some kind of change management training along with other managers ( aero ).
Sounds like the same playbook they put us through in 2017 and 2021.
I still have the notes .. and the survivor guilt.
1) Leader Training ( Pre Announcement)
Why & How, empathetic communication, Legal /HR compliance
2) Managerial Training ( Post Announce/Transition)
Survivor guilt & fear, workflow redesign, resistance mgt
3) Employee Support & communication.
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@ps all I hear is “layoffs in aero are confirmed”. And “just keep your people distracted while the real work gets done “
I went through it for Aero as a manager.
The basic messages were:
- If your team was going to get hit with layoffs, you (the manager) would already know about it.
- If your team was going to have to relocate, you would also already know about it.
- Gave the calendar for notifications, nearly all the dates have already passed.
- Gave vanilla talking points, nothing that any decent manager wouldn't already know.
- Told managers not to speculate on things not announced.
- Tole managers to keep talking to their teams.
Honestly it was another HR 'mandatory' meeting that could have been an email.
Or it could simply be change management to help manager prepare for the upcoming company split.
Don’t bother saving for retirement it will pointless in ten years.
Elon Musk
“Good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. And hard times create valuation discounts.”
- Sir Elliott
Workflow redesign — I remember that one also known as “make the survivors do more work and like it” or “deliver the same stuff .. just a lot of it is broken”
Survivor guilt is real. I made it through the brutal cuts in 90s when space station was given to the Russians. Fifty percent of site walked out.
Survivor guilt…..my gosh that is next level gaslighting…..so sorry to the people that get impacted but we’re all just employees in this mess together…
That’s up there with “peanut butter spread raises” and the reasons why they are “better for the company”.