Layoffs are often necessary for organizations, but the days and weeks afterward determine whether your teams will quickly move forward or struggle with uncertainty. Remaining employees often feel anxiety, fear of future cuts, guilt for being “the ones who stayed,” and skepticism about the organization’s direction. Productivity drops, resentment rises, and trust erodes quickly. Managers, often under intense pressure and uncertainty, are now being tasked with stabilizing their teams, rebuilding trust, keeping top talent engaged, and maintaining productivity.
Yes, layoffs are tough. But leading after layoffs is even harder! Many of your managers will be feeling overwhelmed and stressed out as they navigate uncertainty, shifting workloads, and disengaged employees. That will impact their effectiveness in leading their teams as well as meeting your organization’s goals and priorities.
Here’s How to Equip Your Managers to Navigate the Post-Layoff Reality
Register them is this engaging and high-impact webinar that will give them tools, strategies, and confidence to navigate post-layoff challenges effectively. They will learn how to communicate clearly without fueling fear, reset expectations without burning out their team, and rebuild morale so people can reconnect with the mission—not just survive the aftermath. Participants will discover how to:
- Rebuild trust and morale among remaining employees.
- Create a roadmap for long-term resilience and engagement.
- Identify early signs of disengagement or burnout and intervene proactively.
- Communicate with honesty and empathy, addressing employee concerns effectively.
- Maintain accountability and performance while supporting team members emotionally.
- Foster a culture of resilience, collaboration, and engagement, even in times of disruption.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
Workforce reductions are among the most challenging events managers can face. While layoffs may be unavoidable, the days, weeks and even months that follow define whether your team recovers quickly-or spirals into disengagement, lost productivity, and higher turnover.
Layoffs don't just affect the people who leave-they profoundly impact the people who stay. That’s because layoffs change everything-your team, your relationships, and your role as their leader during these very uncertain times. Overnight, the people you work with are grieving coworkers, fearing for their own futures, and quietly wondering what’s next? And in the middle of all of this they are looking to you their manager for clarity, stability, and confidence.
"Business As Usual" Doesn't Work After Layoffs, What Does?
How do you help your "surviving" employees regain focus, confidence, and engagement? How do you move your team from uncertainty to stability?
By registering now for "Leading After Layoffs" webinar will give you the essential tools to lead with strength, empathy, and strategic focus during one of the most challenging leadership moments you’ll face. You’ll learn how to communicate openly without overpromising, rebuild trust when morale is shaken, restore team cohesion, and maintain performance without overwhelming your already-stressed employees.
By attending this practical, action-focused webinar you will develop the skills to:
- Recognize the silent signs of burnout, guilt, and disengagement
- Strengthen your ability to communicate with empathy and credibility
- Build the confidence and presence your team needs from you right now
- Learn how to prevent burnout, conflict, disengagement in the aftermath of layoffs
- Increase your capacity to stabilize your team, retain top performers, and drive results
AREA COVERED
This highly informative webinar focuses on the strategies managers can utilize to support their teams after layoffs and create the conditions for renewed stability, resilience, and productivity. The learning objectives are:
- Understand the key leadership challenges after layoffs.
- Recognize the signs of disengagement, resentment, and "quiet quitting"
- Learn how to strengthen team morale through weekly check-ins, Q&A sessions, team-building
- Review a realistic manager-employee dialogue on answering difficult questions
- Identify the operational impact of layoffs and reassess prioroites and rsponsibilities
- Apply stay-interview style conversations to keep remaining high performers committed
- Examine a realistic case study: Rebuilding trust after layoffs - the journey of Dana’s team
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This highly informative webinar focuses on the strategies managers can utilize to support their teams after layoffs and create the conditions for renewed stability, resilience, and productivity. The learning objectives are:
- Understand the key leadership challenges after layoffs.
- Recognize the signs of disengagement, resentment, and “quiet quitting”.
- Learn how to strengthen team morale through weekly check-ins, Q&A sessions.
- Review a realistic manager–employee dialogue on answering difficult questions.
- Identify the operational impact of layoffs and reassess prioroites and rsponsibilities.
- Apply stay-interview style conversations to keep remaining high performers committed.
- Examine a realistic case study: Rebuilding trust after layoffs — the journey of Dana’s team.
WHO WILL BENEFIT?
- VP of Human Resources
- Human Resource Professionals
- CEO’s
- COO’s
- Chief Learning Officer
- Directors
- Project Managers
- Operation Managers and Supervisors
- Staff Managers and Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Anyone who is leading a team, department or business unit that has gone through layoffs
Workforce reductions are among the most challenging events managers can face. While layoffs may be unavoidable, the days, weeks and even months that follow define whether your team recovers quickly-or spirals into disengagement, lost productivity, and higher turnover.
Layoffs don't just affect the people who leave-they profoundly impact the people who stay. That’s because layoffs change everything-your team, your relationships, and your role as their leader during these very uncertain times. Overnight, the people you work with are grieving coworkers, fearing for their own futures, and quietly wondering what’s next? And in the middle of all of this they are looking to you their manager for clarity, stability, and confidence.
"Business As Usual" Doesn't Work After Layoffs, What Does?
How do you help your "surviving" employees regain focus, confidence, and engagement? How do you move your team from uncertainty to stability?
By registering now for "Leading After Layoffs" webinar will give you the essential tools to lead with strength, empathy, and strategic focus during one of the most challenging leadership moments you’ll face. You’ll learn how to communicate openly without overpromising, rebuild trust when morale is shaken, restore team cohesion, and maintain performance without overwhelming your already-stressed employees.
By attending this practical, action-focused webinar you will develop the skills to:
- Recognize the silent signs of burnout, guilt, and disengagement
- Strengthen your ability to communicate with empathy and credibility
- Build the confidence and presence your team needs from you right now
- Learn how to prevent burnout, conflict, disengagement in the aftermath of layoffs
- Increase your capacity to stabilize your team, retain top performers, and drive results
This highly informative webinar focuses on the strategies managers can utilize to support their teams after layoffs and create the conditions for renewed stability, resilience, and productivity. The learning objectives are:
- Understand the key leadership challenges after layoffs.
- Recognize the signs of disengagement, resentment, and "quiet quitting"
- Learn how to strengthen team morale through weekly check-ins, Q&A sessions, team-building
- Review a realistic manager-employee dialogue on answering difficult questions
- Identify the operational impact of layoffs and reassess prioroites and rsponsibilities
- Apply stay-interview style conversations to keep remaining high performers committed
- Examine a realistic case study: Rebuilding trust after layoffs - the journey of Dana’s team
This highly informative webinar focuses on the strategies managers can utilize to support their teams after layoffs and create the conditions for renewed stability, resilience, and productivity. The learning objectives are:
- Understand the key leadership challenges after layoffs.
- Recognize the signs of disengagement, resentment, and “quiet quitting”.
- Learn how to strengthen team morale through weekly check-ins, Q&A sessions.
- Review a realistic manager–employee dialogue on answering difficult questions.
- Identify the operational impact of layoffs and reassess prioroites and rsponsibilities.
- Apply stay-interview style conversations to keep remaining high performers committed.
- Examine a realistic case study: Rebuilding trust after layoffs — the journey of Dana’s team.
- VP of Human Resources
- Human Resource Professionals
- CEO’s
- COO’s
- Chief Learning Officer
- Directors
- Project Managers
- Operation Managers and Supervisors
- Staff Managers and Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Anyone who is leading a team, department or business unit that has gone through layoffs
Speaker Profile
Marcia Zidle
Marcia Zidle, the Smart Moves Coach, is a board-certified executive and career coach, business management consultant, and keynote speaker, with over 25 years of management, business consulting, and international experience in a variety of industries including health care, financial services, oil and gas, manufacturing, insurance, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, government and nonprofits. She has expertise in strategy and alignment; executive and team leadership development; social and emotional intelligence; employee engagement and innovation; career and organization change management; employee relations and talent management. Marcia has been selected as one of LinkedIn Profinder’s top coaches for the past 7 years. Check out the 200 …
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