Laid Off 5 Perspectives For Those That Stay

Laid Off: 5 Perspectives for those that stay This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories Yesterday, I noted five practices for those people that are not laid off and are staying in their positions. The purpose of the article was to help reduce the stress of the changes in the job as the result of fewer people in the positions to do the work. But stress is really about both control and perspective. If you have both control and perspective, you will have reduced stress, even if the situation you are in is difficult. Reviewing my five practices, I realized that they are five practices to help achieve some control over your situation. But not perspective. Perspective is important: perspective gives you the bigger picture of your situation. Perspective allows you to see what impacts could occur to you that don’t match your career objectives or that you have no control over. Control gives you the here and now, perspective gives you the environment around you affecting your work. Here are five perspectives to help you define your work environment: The objective of perspective is to gauge the risk of your position. No person is layoff-proof and no one is indispensable. But, there is relative risk to your position. By analyzing these five perspectives, you can gauge the risk to your position and take action. […] Laid Off â€" 5 perspectives for those that stay […] Reply […] What we work on now builds for what we want to happen in the future. So we plan, work the plan, check out our environment to see future impacts to our work, and then plan some […] Reply Thanks, Lora. As a matter of fact, there are a few of those things going on…. Reply Scot, I’ve been following your posts for a couple of weeks now. I just need to let you know how valuable (your writing) is. Every post is spot on! I co-managed the reorganization of a large company several years ago, and about 700 people were eliminated. It was grueling to say the least. We didn’t have a good plan for helping the survivors carry on. I hope your posts turn into some sort of book or training to help those who are left get on with their lives…and work. There’s a market for it. Keep going! You’re doing great! Lora Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.