Managing Bereavement in Organizations
A crisis can be a productive state.
You just have to take away the taint of catastrophe.
— Max Frisch
Facing a loss leaves many people speechless, induces insecurity and even discomfort - especially in a professional context. By now, even established business publications such as manager-magazin.de or Harvard Business Review talk about the effects of grief in the workplace. What is important in the event of a bereavement within your organization: Finding the right balance between a space for mourning and day-to-day business requirements.
Corporate grief management provides the foundation for this.
You are managing a death or bereavement within the company? Contact me for support and ideas!
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Manage Bereavement in Your Organization: Service Overview
As a manager or HR expert, you want to act confidently as well as thoughtfully when someone in your company experiences a bereavement.
In an emergency, you prepare for important conversations in our one-on-one coaching sessions. I will also advise you on possible measures, such as offering support to grieving employees to grieving employees or helping team members who need time to say goodbye.
As an HR expert, you often face a double challenge when dealing with a case of of bereavement or the death of an employee: you are the contact person for a grieving employee and are acting as an expert advisor to a manager.
I am your background support for practical advice, personal coaching, and as a fallback option where you can leave any pressure you feel in this demanding situation.
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Professional grief counseling stabilizes grieving employees. It helps to address and deal with work-related aspects of bereavement. This applies to bereavement within an employee's family as well as after the death of a colleague.
After a team member dies, a team need time to mourn while they are charged with keeping operations running at the same time.
With my team coaching sessions, you can address the job-specific aspects of grief, from clarifying organizational issues to organizing a farewell ceremony within the team or company.
In a workshop, you will prepare an emergency plan for dealing with deaths in the company and for supporting grieving employees, covering everything from communication channels and possible offers for returning to work to self-care for managers.
Blog Articles
What to Do when an Employee Dies? For HR experts and executives
Tips and checklists for HR experts and managers
Communication Guidelines
Stakeholder-aware guidelines for communication
Grieving employees: Checklist for Managers
Ideas for immediate action | Good-to-know for conversations | Points to clarify
Integrating Bereaved Employees "After"
Death in the family: what to do when a colleague is grieving
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Ready to Act?
Speechlessness, uncertainty, maybe even embarrassing silence when a colleague is grieving? Grief management for organizations prepares managers, HR experts, works councils and persons of trust for the emergency case “bereavement”.
How can I help you? Let me know! Coaching Petra Meyer
- +49 179 2601797
- hallo@trauer-coaching.de
- Munich or remote
- more about me