1. How to Maintain Your Humanity While Saying Good-Bye to Good People

2. Objective To guide you and your company through the difficult process of downsizing.

3. What is your role as Manager, Team Leader or Supervisor? YOU ARE THE "COACH"

4. You are the "Coach" And as the Coach, you should approach this encounter as another opportunity for: inspiration understanding creating your company's best future

5. Coaching is a process for cultivating one's life purpose and manifesting dreams into reality and fulfillment. can "clear the fear", open the eyes and avail us to new possibilities. facilitates change even in the most difficult situations by inspiring and empowering us to explore and manifest what's possible.

6. Coaching with Compassion: 5 Elemental Principles 1.Observe 2.Feel 3.Value 4.Want 5.Act

7. Observe principle1 What your eyes see What your ears hear What are your inner thoughts What are your bodily sensations Concentrate on the facts.

8. Feeling: Sensation principle 2 Do you Feel... Light-headed Pressure in the chest Sweaty palms Dry throat, difficult to swallow

9. Feeling: Emotion Physical sensations may have their emotional counterpoints: fear anxiety hurt worry anger

10. Honor your feeling Allow everyone to have the "feeling" of being heard and thus be more at ease.

11. Value principle 3 And then, what do you imagine about the other person’s needs, values, interpretations and expectations? What are your needs? How do you interpret the situation? What value do you assess to the moment? Judge fairly the situation: arrest the impulse to blame prepare your mind and heart to be centered

12. principle 4 WantWant Ask yourself: What do you want as a result of this meeting? What is your dream come true regarding this meeting? How do you envision your future with this person?

13. principle 5 Act Plan your work and work your plan. Plan a "dress rehearsal." Role play BOTH roles. Pretend you are feeling and thinking what the other person might think or feel and give voice to what you imagine he/she might say. Consider a "script."

14. The Meeting

15. Convert the negative into the positive.

16. Use emotions as guides to making wise choices

17. Get a good night's sleep the night before Be prepared in physical ways: Find a place to be quiet and centered Get a good physical workout

18. How do I handle the emotions of the good person I'm letting go?

19. How can I sever a relationship and yet stay connected?

20. Envision the best possible future. Letting someone go is a kind of severance, certainly. The best possible future is creating the kind of severance that leaves you both feeling dignified.

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