How could employers make the painful process of redundancies more sympathetic, thoughtful, supportive, and well… human? Eleanor Gooding shares how she was able to build on foundational work on culture, values and a ‘People Manifesto’, to stay human-centred while managing restructuring and redundancies.
In this episode, we’re joined by Eleanor Gooding, People & Culture Director at Boost Drinks.
We’re tackling the topic of redundancies and how to manage them well by keeping humans at the heart of everything.
We hear from Eleanor about the innovative and valuable work she did to nurture a positive culture at Boost, including implementing a People Manifesto. She explains how this foundational work was vitally important when the company was bought out and redundancies were made.
Obviously going through redundancies is incredibly difficult, both for people being made redundant, but also for leaders and managers. But Eleanor and her leadership colleagues found a way to approach the whole process in a way that was sympathetic, considered and supportive, keeping humans at the centre.
She shares valuable insights and advice on a topic that is tricky and emotional, and often one that people avoid talking or thinking about very much.
We cover:
- How to develop a positive culture in your organisation.
- What a People Manifesto is, how to implement one, and why implementing one can be beneficial to the whole organisation.
- Why doing the work on values and culture is important for managing difficult situations well.
- How to manage redundancies well by keeping humans at the heart of everything.
- The importance of asking 'why wouldn't we do it?'.
