http://www.philipdelisle.com/leadership-recession/ A former serial entrepreneur, Philip is an experienced professional mentor, facilitator, speaker and author, who works on the business through the individual, challenging you to grow by helping you to change the way you think Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:09:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.philipdelisle.com/leadership-recession/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Donkey Walloper Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:48:49 +0000 http://www.philipdelisle.com/?p=39#comment-7 Anyone can hold the tiller of a ship when the sea is calm. It is when the going gets tough that leaders really earn their pay. These difficult times are a great opportunity to review our business processes; know what our objectives are; look at what we are doing; fix broken systems; and streamline the business. When redundancies are made they should not be on a voluntary basis. The volunteers are usually the best employees with transferable skills who can get employment elsewhere easily. The staff who do not volunteer are probably those who are the least skilled, least self-motivated and most likely to cause HR "headaches". Anyone can hold the tiller of a ship when the sea is calm. It is when the going gets tough that leaders really earn their pay.
These difficult times are a great opportunity to review our business processes; know what our objectives are; look at what we are doing; fix broken systems; and streamline the business.
When redundancies are made they should not be on a voluntary basis. The volunteers are usually the best employees with transferable skills who can get employment elsewhere easily. The staff who do not volunteer are probably those who are the least skilled, least self-motivated and most likely to cause HR “headaches”.

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