Dr Dougal Sutherland: How to handle change within your organisation

Redundancies and restructures galore are taking place across every sector at the moment, and these changes can have a significant impact on mental health and wellbeing. 

Change is always difficult, but change within a business can really set off people’s flight or fight instincts and add to their worries and anxiety. 

Businesses have to be careful in how they handle this change, as doing so badly can increase the harm their employees suffer and open the organisation up to increased risk. 

Dr Dougal Sutherland has some tips for what to do when change is occurring. 

For individuals: 

-Focus as much as you can on the aspects you can control throughout the process 

-Try not to get sucked into worrying about the problem, focus instead on the aftermath 

For organisations: 

-Really emphasise wellbeing in the workplace, you need to look after everyone involved 

-staff who are affected 

-staff who are “unaffected” but may be suffering from “survivors' guilt”  

-managers who have to deliver the decision 

-HR people who support the managers and staff 

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