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Squiggly Careers

#104 How to manage redundancy and restructures

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Our squiggly careers are full of change and uncertainty. At times, that can take the form of organisational restructures and even job redundancies. These challenging times can make us question what we're great at and what we should do next. In this week's podcast, Sarah and Helen share their experiences and their top advice is this is something you find yourself experiencing. For links to further resources, head to www.amazingif.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast.

0:05.0

I'm Sarah and I'm joined by my co-host Helen.

0:08.0

Hi everybody.

0:09.0

And we're actually recording this on World Mental Health Awareness Day.

0:13.0

So we thought before we get into this week's topic, and actually it probably is quite relevant to this week's topic, which is about redundancies and restructure, so quite a tough topic.

0:25.9

It was worth just pausing and reflecting on some of the really good work that we've spotted today,

0:29.2

that we've either been part of, or just wanted to celebrate.

0:33.2

And I'm sure everyone listening will have seen lots of different things out there as well,

0:37.2

perhaps examples of things that you've done in your companies, which we'd love to hear.

0:42.1

So Helen, did you see anything that particularly caught your eye today where you thought people were doing some really good stuff?

0:46.7

Well, in a slightly narcissistic way, can I please start with myself?

0:51.3

What, in terms of what you were doing for your own mental health?

0:52.8

Well, that's okay. Well, that as well, Sarah. I can go there as well.

0:55.5

I was actually thinking.

0:56.1

So I decided I woke up this morning and I was like, right, I really want to support this

1:00.8

and there's quite a lot of different initiatives.

1:02.8

So obviously we are big fans of P-Joy's and today it was all about...

1:06.2

I'm wearing my P-Joy's right now.

1:08.2

Okay. I'm wearing my P-Joy's right now. Okay, so P-Joy's, amazing organisation.

1:12.2

If you don't know, they really check them out.

1:18.0

Basically, they had a day about wearing your pyjamas to recognise and raise awareness of mental health.

1:19.5

So I was out in about in London today.

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