CIPD Transition Services provide consulting, resources and expertise to support you and your organisation during restructuring or organisational change.
We offer a range of services including strategic and operational expertise, guidance and hands-on support that can be tailored to meet your organisation’s unique needs.
Whatever form your restructuring or change management programme needs to take, effective planning and thorough and consistent implementation is vital.
Working alongside your HR and senior management teams, our consultants share best practice, facilitate effective project planning and implementation, and work with you to deliver positive outcomes for all stakeholders. This extra, external and objective range of resources aims to provide timely support for your and your management team during what can be a very challenging and stressful period.
CIPD Transition Framework
We have established a framework that underpins our range of transition services. Using this three stage framework, the needs of the organisation, project, and individuals are established and met before, during, and beyond the period of transition, through the provision of the following service modes:
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Consultation
You will recieve best practice guidance from our experienced consultants who specialise in the different stages of wide ranging transition programmes. Input is available from initial scoping, project planning and implementation through to recovery and renewal.
- Access to external, expert consultancy team
- Strategic development, objective setting, scoping
- Risk assessment, ensuring legal compliance and avoiding pitfalls
- Organisation re-design, impact analysis
- Developing initiatives for re-engagement of personnel
Project planning and management
We then establish tasks and processes to guide your teams through the transition process. This includes risk management, contingency planning and impact analyses. We also provides a central CIPD liaison to assist you in overseeing the effective completion of your transition programme.
- Ongoing project management support
- Project management team initiation
- Implementation, action planning, logistics
- Contingency planning
Facilitation and Implementation
Our experts will guide and support your teams in effective decision making and help you to achieve organisational objectives throughout the transition process.
- Board, senior management team, project team facilitation
- Consultation planning
- Recovery to 'business as usual'
Coaching / Training
We can support your individual leaders, managers, and teams throughout the transition process. This includes team and one to one coaching and training interventions to ease communications, enable efficient processes and support all stakeholders.
- Group and one-to-one coaching (ranging from stress management to sharing best practice)
- Supporting HR and line management teams
- Manager training
- at risk meetings
- selection for redundancy
- giving the bad news
- Selecting support services for departing employees
- Facilitating handovers and re-energising 'survivors'
The level to which we engage with you and your organisation is flexible, and depends on your specific needs:
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If you would like to know more about CIPD Transition Services and how we could help you and your organisation, contact us today.