Be Careful What You Say - By Heather Naomi Pierpoint

What are you saying?
Are your words good or bad,
Positive or negative, happy or sad?
The words of your mouth lead to failure or success.
Do you ever wonder how you got into that mess?
You are in charge of the words that you speak.
Will you be strong, or will you be weak?
Do you speak words of sickness, or words of health?
Do you speak of poverty, or are your words of wealth?
What you say each day is what comes to pass in your life.
Are your days full of peace, or are they full of strife?
Your life will reflect the words that you say.
Speak positive, uplifting words and life will manifest that way.
Speak negative, depressing, “Oh, poor me” kind of things…
Then the road to failure is what these words will bring.
It’s your choice; it’s up to you.
What are you saying?
What will you do?

If you are a business leader and in any way responsible for any stage of the redundancy process, be it planning, implementation or even the first few months after, there will be many different emotions and feelings coursing through you – most of them negative and most of them adding to a sense of failure and loss.

What you do, say and think from this point will determine your eventual outcome.

What is clear is that things will never be the same again. The major leaders of the Western world are calling for moral responsibility to be a given in our future business model; Capitalism with a Conscience in terms of business ethics.

For your business, it’s worth remembering that behind the numbers are people, and it’s the way their personal transitions are managed that determines whether the end results are enormous gains or significant losses. As an employer, you may not have to do your best for the individuals that will leave your business but surely you would want to try to do everything that you could to ensure that their future was as positive as possible?

For your individuals, what’s important is recognising that they are still just that; that their identity has not been affected by what has happened. How they think about themselves, how they feel about you and others, how they behave and what they do over the next 3-6 months will be critical.

“………………I would be lying if I said I was looking forward to the next few months, however I now look at the positive side of this process and the opportunities that it will present and this, in no small part, is due to yourself and our conversations.

Thanks once again.”

Retail Sales Executive – Camelot



“…………….I want to say now rather than later that whatever happens I really appreciate how you have fought mine/our corner. It’s 6 months since the first redundancy cull and you have managed to keep us all upbeat and battling on in trying conditions. I couldn’t have asked for more from you. Thank you.”

Business Partner Manager – Vodafone

If we could show you how to emerge from the depression of redundancy with options, choices and an optimistic outlook, would you be interested?