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Actual for You - Friendly Fired: Setting Up a Redundancy Support Group
It’s probably been a long week for you. Hassles with machines breaking down, employees not showing up for jobs and bills piled high over your head. You are wondering if it’s all worth it or should you just pack it in and go and work for another, more successful carpet cleaning business? Right now, bringing in any regular wage probably seems like an attractive idea.Whatever you are going through, Bobby Walker has been there as well. Until he started utilizing internet advertising, his carpet cleaning business was a small one, too, and he knows what it’s like to struggle. That is why he has made the decision to release his very own company blueprint to successful online marketing. Only two hundred people will be allowed to buy it, so if you are interested, you need to get it fast.With over 200,000 carpet cleaning jobs being booked online every month, you want to be sure to get some of the action. If you don’t have a successful internet marketing strategy in place for your company, you don’t have a chance in today’s environment. Even customers who have relied on you in the past may be lost if they can’t find you on
• Few people leaving
• Small, tight knit organisation
Disadvantages
• People with different needs and issues may not be able to help each other well
Functional group
Advantages
• People know each other well
• People understand each others’ needs in terms of employment aspirations
Disadvantages
• May be competition for jobs therefore some tension
• May lack the creativ
This article will provide brief overview about definition, conceptual views as well as possible environmental actions related to the notion of business’s social responsibility. Example will be cited to highlight successful facilitation of a socially responsible business.With ever increasing concern on environmental hazards and issues related to various products and services, it is becoming an undeniable fact that a business should ensure its social responsibility to facilitate a societal sensitive corporate image. Koontz & Weihrich (1990) asserts that corporate social responsibility is nothing more than seriously considering the impact of company’s action on society. However a more comprehensive definition refers social responsibility with the degree to which a company recognizes what being a good community and global citizen means and acts accordingly (Slocum, 1995:17).It was further asserted that there are three basic conceptual views of social responsibility are generally acknowledged. First ‘traditional social responsibility’ is referred to the perception that by serving the interests of shareholders, organization
Many of the difficulties people face having been made redundant are practical and emotional. Peer support helps individuals to overcome both. The practical, in terms of supporting each other through the change with advice or ideas, the emotional by helping people through the loneliness, loss of confidence or motivation and, in some cases, anger. Emotional departure does not always happen at the same time as physical departure and the time lag can be difficult to cope with, causing a sense of isolation and possibly strong feelings of need for affiliation as well as rejection. Being able to maintain the connection with the company through other leavers can ease the transition.
Peer pressure helps individuals to move forward – it is quite common for people to lose their desire to get things done when there is nobody around to encourage them, or who rely on the outcome. At work we are often motivated by our desire not to let down colleagues or to appear unreliable. Peer support provides for this function.
The group can be made up of people in a range of ways. It may be open to any employees of an organisation that have been made redundant or are facing redundancy, people from a particular functional area within the company, or based on level of seniority. While some of the advantages of mutual understanding are lost if a group comprises people from different organisations, this situation still has the potential to foster a valuable experience for the members.
The pros and cons of each model are:
All Employees
Advantages
• Few people leaving
• Small, tight knit organisation
Disadvantages
• People with different needs and issues may not be able to help each other well
Functional group
Advantages
• People know each other well
• People understand each others’ needs in terms of employment aspirations
Disadvantages
• May be competition for jobs therefore some tension
• May lack the creativi
In my state, your hair is cut by a licensed professional, but no license or proof of competency is required to schedule your radio and television advertising. It is standard industry practice for broadcast outlets to hire people without training or experience and have them proposing advertising schedules in a very short period of time. The likelihood of your advertising money getting wasted is high, and it’s intolerable.Repetition is the soul of advertising. A person must hear your message regularly. If she doesn’t, she forgets you, and she will do business with someone who is continually telling her about himself. How often the exposure depends upon what Wizard of Ads author Roy Williams calls an advertisement’s Impact Quotient—that is, how well it persuades, and the nature of the product. Boring ads that lose listener attention in their first five seconds must be run many, many more times than an advertisement written by someone who knows what he or she is doing. Further, a great offer on a product with wide appeal need not be run as much as an average offer for a product with more narrow appeal.
Peer pressure helps individuals to move forward – it is quite common for people to lose their desire to get things done when there is nobody around to encourage them, or who rely on the outcome. At work we are often motivated by our desire not to let down colleagues or to appear unreliable. Peer support provides for this function.
The group can be made up of people in a range of ways. It may be open to any employees of an organisation that have been made redundant or are facing redundancy, people from a particular functional area within the company, or based on level of seniority. While some of the advantages of mutual understanding are lost if a group comprises people from different organisations, this situation still has the potential to foster a valuable experience for the members.
The pros and cons of each model are:
All Employees
Advantages
• Few people leaving
• Small, tight knit organisation
Disadvantages
• People with different needs and issues may not be able to help each other well
Functional group
Advantages
• People know each other well
• People understand each others’ needs in terms of employment aspirations
Disadvantages
• May be competition for jobs therefore some tension
• May lack the creativ
When you pass your business card to a potential customer, are you making the best impression for your company? When people drive by your business are they making accurate judgments about your business? Think of your logo as a silent salesperson---a marketing tool that conveys more than just the company name. Every potential client, every existing customer, all associates and employees, even your competition will see it and develop a perceived understanding of your business. An effective logo supports your brand image, acts as a visual link to your business and establishes expectations in the mind of your audience.Creating a logo and identity design is a collaborative effort between you and your designer. We need your input, ideas and feedback; you need us to translate that to graphic elements that connect with the image you want to project. The first step to getting the partnership going is for you to share as much about your business and the audience that your logo will reach.We meet with our clients to discuss their business and to begin defining what they are looking for in a logo. Your designer should want you to
Peer pressure helps individuals to move forward – it is quite common for people to lose their desire to get things done when there is nobody around to encourage them, or who rely on the outcome. At work we are often motivated by our desire not to let down colleagues or to appear unreliable. Peer support provides for this function.
The group can be made up of people in a range of ways. It may be open to any employees of an organisation that have been made redundant or are facing redundancy, people from a particular functional area within the company, or based on level of seniority. While some of the advantages of mutual understanding are lost if a group comprises people from different organisations, this situation still has the potential to foster a valuable experience for the members.
The pros and cons of each model are:
All Employees
Advantages
• Few people leaving
• Small, tight knit organisation
Disadvantages
• People with different needs and issues may not be able to help each other well
Functional group
Advantages
• People know each other well
• People understand each others’ needs in terms of employment aspirations
Disadvantages
• May be competition for jobs therefore some tension
• May lack the creativ
I visited the NACS, National Association of Convenience Stores, this past week. It is a trade show and conference event for everyone involved in selling to or running convenience stores.If your beverage or other product can be sold at convenience stores, this show is for you. It is visited by buyers from distribution companies, convenience stores and supermarkets.First of all you need to know that the exhibitors at this trade show are not convenience stores. Instead, they are all suppliers to convenience stores. Many people believe that 7-Eleven, Circle K, Valero, Shell, Chevron, Safeway, Albertsons, Walgreens, Supervalu, AVC, or Kroger will be exhibiting their own booths, allowing you to go and talk with them or sell them your products. This is not the case. If you want to sell to distributors or retailers at the show, you need a booth.Retail stores don't exhibit at the NACS, suppliers to these stores or companies that want to be suppliers to these stores have the booths. Buyers from convenience stores and even distributors are the ones walking the floor looking for new products. On the beverage side you
The pros and cons of each model are:
All Employees
Advantages
• Few people leaving
• Small, tight knit organisation
Disadvantages
• People with different needs and issues may not be able to help each other well
Functional group
Advantages
• People know each other well
• People understand each others’ needs in terms of employment aspirations
Disadvantages
• May be competition for jobs therefore some tension
• May lack the creativ
Why do people become attracted to your business? Why is it some days, new client opportunities seem to grow on trees and you ask yourself, what did I do to open these floodgates? Is it just a fad or something that will last for a while? I often think this well will dry up one day; however the flow never seems to slow down.What are some of the factors new clients are attracted to you? I personally believe professionalism in what you do is extremely important; you must be professional in your dealings with your clients. However being professional doesn’t mean you can’t have fun. When you have fun and enjoy what you do, your staff, colleagues and most importantly your clients pick up on and feed off of your excitement for the services you offer. Being professional and fun loving is the most important key to attracting the best clients. It is true, people are not attracted to others who constantly frown and do not appear to enjoy themselves. Try it out, walk around with a frown on your face for a week and watch the people avoid you.Having a high level of integrity is important in any business and is an important f
• Few people leaving
• Small, tight knit organisation
Disadvantages
• People with different needs and issues may not be able to help each other well
Functional group
Advantages
• People know each other well
• People understand each others’ needs in terms of employment aspirations
Disadvantages
• May be competition for jobs therefore some tension
• May lack the creativity that cross functional interaction brings
• May be a narrow skill set so some external help may be needed for some
activities
• Different levels of employee may have little in common and senior people may
be uncomfortable being as open with junior people
Seniority Groups
Advantages
• Common understanding of situation
• Cross pollination of expertise
• Openness and not too likely that there will be competition for jobs
Disadvantages
• Groups of junior people would benefit from the greater experience and
contacts that may be derived from mixing with senior people (maybe in larger set
up there is a possibility for matrix peer groups or just better to extend to outside
the group if required)
There is no limit to group size, although 6 – 10 appears to be optimal. Any fewer and the benefits of shared tasks are reduced, any more and it’s harder for everyone to meet at the same time.
Part of the purpose of peer support is for the individuals to feel free to talk openly about their feelings, and this may mean expressing anger about what has happened. I call this “bite-back”. Bite-back cannot happen easily if the initiative is seen as being started or supported by the organisation itself. It is therefore important that support groups are formed independently and employees join a group only if they want to. The only intervention the company might provide is some information about such groups as part of the overall support programme so that people can take them up if they want to.
There is no optimum time for groups to start - it may be best to wait until people have finished work or as soon as they have been given notice. For some people, a break before beginning the process is required and these people may not want
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