Facilitate Employee Departures

Anisha Anbu

This course will provide Human Resources and Supervisors with the knowledge, skills, tools, and approach when employees depart your organization voluntarily or involuntarily due to a termination, layoff, resignation, or retirement. This course provides an overview for each of the types of employee departures, the role of Human Resources and Supervisors in the process, detailed tools with specific steps to be applied when employees depart organizations, insight into the legal and contractual considerations of some departures, and the social impact of employee departures in your organization. We will review the types of departures in detail, the approach for each, discuss how to effectively plan and prepare for departure meetings, understand the importance of building an effective communication strategy for departures, and reviewing the potential legal implications of some departures and how to prepare for these challenges. You will also learn to design an Employee Departure process for your organization, including a series of templates, tools, and guidelines for leaders to follow. In addition, this course will provide the framework for establishing a process flow for Supervisors, guided by Human Resources for all Employee Departures.

Skills / Knowledge

1. You will learn to conduct employee departures with a detailed planned approach, ensuring the process is legal, fair, and respectful of the individual impacted.
2. You will know how to design a detailed process for leaders that will be facilitating employee departures, providing specifics of their role in the process and how best HR supports the leaders.
3. Learn how to design an effective communication strategy for employee departures including messages from the Company, messages to the Team, and appropriate dialogue for the departure meeting.
4. By the end of this course, you will have a deeper understanding of the legal implications of employee departures, practices for effective decision making, appropriate legal documents required and management best practices – especially knowing how to avoid costly legal challenges.
5. In addition, we will develop an approach for communicating with exited employees, specifically during the transition period, including exit interviews, providing letters of reference or recommendation, negotiations of severance, and lieu of notice.

Issued on

February 6, 2024

Expires on

Does not expire

Evidence

91%

Grade

Top 17 percent of the course

Average class grade: 81 %