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Develop an Offboarding Plan to Manage Risk and Transition Employees Effectively

Plan ahead to promote positive departure experiences and minimize the impact of employee offboarding.

  • The average employee departure announcement does not allow enough time to offboard effectively. As a result, most organizations don’t enable the passing of required knowledge from one employee to another before a departure.

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  • Get on-demand project support
  • Get advice, coaching, and insight at key project milestones
  • Go through a Guided Implementation to help you get through your project

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Critical Insight

  • A well-defined offboarding process will help mitigate the risks associated with involuntary turnover, as well as protect organizational knowledge from loss and the corporate brand from negative employee departures.

Impact and Result

  • Create an offboarding checklist to manage departures effectively while protecting your corporate brand, retaining organizational knowledge, and preventing exposure to risk.
  • A positive offboarding experience will promote your employer brand and increase the likelihood of referrals, high-quality applicants, and rehiring opportunities.

Develop an Offboarding Plan to Manage Risk and Transition Employees Effectively Research & Tools

3. Plan for post-departure

Build morale after an employee departure and maintain alumni relationships.

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About McLean & Company

McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 3-phase advisory process. You'll receive 5 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Plan for offboarding
  • Call 1: Review project rationale and discuss current offboarding policies and procedures.
  • Call 2: Review communication plan and departing document draft.
  • Call 3: Discuss how to follow up on and revise the offboarding checklist.

Guided Implementation 2: Plan for post-departure
  • Call 1: Discuss the auditing process to ensure efficiency and efficacy.

Guided Implementation 3: Communicate offboarding
  • Call 1: Develop communication guidelines, and plan for offboarding meetings and knowledge transfer.