Today's Reality
With shrinking sales, lower profit margins and no expectations for a rapid economic turnaround, many companies are facing a common reality:
- Cut people
- Do it quickly
- Do it all without jeopardizing the future of the organization
If this is your reality we can help. WSA's Intelligent Layoff process helps to quickly determine which cuts to make without sacrificing your organization's future.
About the Intelligent Layoff Process
The Intelligent Layoff process ensures that workforce reduction decisions support the strategic future of the organization and the business environment in which it will operate.
Senior organizational consultants with a minimum of 20 years real-world experience help you make these very tough decisions quickly and confidently. The exact process varies depending on the organization but we focus on getting answers to some key questions:
- Where does your business come from today?
- Where will it come from in the short-, medium- and long-term?
- What resources do you need to deliver on that business?
- Where should you cut? – Regionally, Internationally
- Who should you cut? – LIFO, highest paid, least experienced
- What should you cut? – Divisions, products, services
- How should you cut? - Across the board, by sales
Key Benefits:
Accelerate the layoff planning and implementation process
Provide a sanity check an existing plans and avoid unintended consequences (Cut Backs Gone Bad - A Real World Example)
Support downsizing initiatives where ever the organization is in the process
Make cuts that will secure the organization's future.
Common Concerns
We don't have time to be strategic about these cuts - they needed to be made yesterday.
Making strategic layoff decisions that safeguard your organization's future does not take any more time than making short-sighted tactical decisions.
No outside consultant could come up to speed on our organization quickly enough to add value.
We have a validated process that enables us to provide valuable feedback and recommendations after spending as few as 2 days with an organization.
We have already started the process. Bringing in outside help now would set us back.
Our approach supports organizations wherever they are in the process. Our involvement ranges from helping key- decision makers craft a strategy from square one to simply providing a sanity check for a plan that is ready to launch.
There is no way I could get approval to spend money on outside consultants.
In the short-term our fees are more than offset by our ability to accelerate the layoff process, and in many cases realize the anticipated cost savings ahead of schedule. More importantly the Intelligent Layoff process makes sure you keep the right people – preserving the future success of the organization.
We have no discretion – every department has to cut back by 10%.
Even if the mandate requires across-the-board cuts, there are still some intelligent choices to be made that could help long-term success and short-term job satisfaction for the survivors.