Bereavement Management: Preparing for the Worst Case Scenario
With bereavement management, organizations prepare for the event that hopefully will not occur (but probably will at some point): An employee is grieving. Or even worse: an employee dies, and their colleagues are grieving.
How to deal with this? This is a question that managers, HR experts, and colleagues alike ask themselves, both personally and procedurally. Bereavement management provides the answer, and it is specific to each company.
Workshop: Bereavement Management for Your Organizations
Grief management develops existing services (e.g., flexible working hours) for bereaved individuals, finds new resources, and collects all resources that managers can draw on in the event of an emergency (including self-care). All of this is incorporated into an action plan.
After the workshop
- you and your managers can refer to a set of guidelines for dealing with bereaved individuals in your organization,
- the necessary measures and steps appropriate for your organization are set out in a clear action plan, and
- You know the steps for effective implementation.
How Relevant is This for Your Organization?
In 2022, more than 1 million people died in Germany – exactly 1,066,341 people. And in (hopefully) most of these cases, there were and still are people who are grieving.
This grief also occurs when a parent or grandparent dies at an advanced age, or when the pregnancy was still a secret.
- 881,872 of these were of retirement age – almost 90%. In many cases, they are mourned by children and grandchildren, who are often still working.
- 180,580 of the younger people who died were over the age of 18. They leave behind partners, children, siblings, friends, possibly parents – and in many cases colleagues. All of them are people who may already be working themselves.
- 3,889 of those who died were younger than 18 years old. They leave behind parents, siblings, grandparents, families, and friends of the family who are perhaps even more devastated than in other cases of death.
- In addition, there were 3,011 stillbirths in 2024, defined as babies who die during pregnancy after the 24th week of gestation or with a weight of more than 500 grams (statistically recorded as stillbirths).
- And an uncounted number of babies who die before the 24th week of pregnancy, the small births.
In both cases, at least the parents, who are almost always working, are grieving.
How do you support an employee who is also a parent, sibling, child, or even a colleague?
With little effort, you can prepare your organization's response to such a case.
♦ To ensure that employees remain loyal (or become loyal) in the event of bereavement.
♦ So that managers and HR experts know what to do in case of an emergency.
Steps to Your Workshop
- You can contact me by email, Calendly, or phone.
- We will set the framework during an initial meeting. I will send you a few questions in advance.
- We agree on the scope of your planned bereavement management.
- Sie bekommen von mir ein Angebot für Ihren Umfang.
- We schedule your workshop, remotely or on site.
- +49 179 2601797
- hallo@trauer-coaching.de
- Make an appointment: go to Calendy (external)
- Munich or remote
Would you like to get to know me? Schedule an appointment here!
- Book your 15-minute introductory meeting via the calendar view.
- You will receive a Zoom link as confirmation.
- At the time of the appointment, click on the link to join.
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- To do so, book an appointment as described above and enter your preference + your phone number in the comments field (with the title “What is our introductory meeting about?”).
- I will call you at the scheduled time or send you a link for Teams.