SIOPSA Invitation

Join the SIOPSA Western Cape Branch for our upcoming DOUBLE-BILL Event

Tuesday Evening, 13 July 2010

1. RETRENCHING HELPFULLY

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       2.  DEVELOPING RESIlLIENCE IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY: A POSITIVE CHANGE PROCESS

Session 1: RETRENCHING HELPFULLY by Andrew Bramley.

Employers generally follow the law when it comes to retrenchment, indeed our law is very regulated and there are many good legal practitioners to support the process.

Employers are also good at providing counselling to individuals as part of the process.

The challenge is helping individuals who are losing their jobs, through no fault of their own, to redefine what they can and want to do now, how to job hunt without relying exclusively on the often low return of CV’s, agencies, newspapers or the internet and how to manage themselves through the process of immense turmoil.  

One of the real challenges is to do so without losing hope. It takes immense energy at a time when this may be at an all time low.

Andrew Bramley heads a consulting business that specialises in helping those who are being retrenched to take charge of themselves and their search for work when faced with job loss.

SESSION 2:   DEVELOPING RESILlIENCE IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY: A POSITIVE CHANGE PROCESS by Dr. Willie Visser

In today’s economic environment some companies find it necessary to undertake a transformation process in order to stay competitive. To achieve its economic goals it might become necessary for many companies to go through a restructuring process. Unfortunately, many of these improvement efforts leave unintended consequences in their wake. Some of the well-known consequences of corporate restructuring and downsizing are that the implicit psychological contract between the employees and the employer are damaged which results in a decline of employee morale and trust, the quality and productivity of employee output often decline, the best talent of the organisation decides to leave the organisation, there is an increase in employee cynicism and change fatigue as well as an increase in the levels  levels of stress and burnout as a result of the increase in job insecurity, increase in work load, ambiguity and a general sense of loss of control.

Follow the implementation of a real life case study where the management of a company that went through a restructuring process, decided to to go through a corporate revitalisation process with the surviving employees making use of positive change processes to reduce negative affect, to develop individual and corporate resilience, to reduce cynicism, stress and burnout and to increase levels of trust and engagement as well as to revitalise and re-energise the organisation.

The following topics will be covered:

• The development of a general model of organisational resilience
• The measurement of the model and the sharing of results
• The application and use of the model in the organisation to guide management decisions on the road to recovery
• The selection and implementation of a broad range of positive organisational interventions

Speakers

Andrew Bramley

Andrew Bramley heads Andrew Bramley Career Consultants, a specialist consultancy providing Career and Behavioural interventions to Organisations, Educational Institutions and NGO’s.

He works with Corporations across South Africa, and presents workshops on Career and LIFE/Work planning at University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.

He has held specialist and general management positions in business, and has worked extensively with retrenchees from both a legal and counseling perspective.

Andrew holds a B.A. and Diploma for Educators of Adults from the University of Cape Town, and an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch, where he achieved a distinction for his thesis ‘Career Management - The Key to Peak Performance’.

He travels widely to share learning with other Consultants and attends international workshops on LIFE/Work planning with Counsellors and career changers from around the world.

He has received more than 100 hours of teaching from Dick Bolles, author of 'What Color Is Your Parachute', which remains the best selling career change and job hunting book in the world. He has also worked with John Webb in Germany, where LIFE/Work planning programmes are offered through German Universities to continuing education students.

Andrew’s passion is helping people find work they love and taking responsibility for their careers, their behaviour and ultimately their lives.

Dr. Willie Visser

Willie is the founder of the Centre for Positive People @ Work a consulting company that makes extensively use of the theory and research on Positive Psychology in its practice. Willie has been in private practice as an OD consultant for more than 16 years. Currently he specialises in the development of resilience and strength as a competence in people and organisations.

Willie has extensive experience in the facilitation of large scale change processes, the development of Health and Wellbeing Risk Assessment Instruments, Diagnostic Instruments for Call Centres and the development of positive work environments.

Willie has worked for several large companies in South Africa including but not limited to Sanlam, BP, Old Mutual, Mr Price and African Bank.

Willie holds a PhD in Industrial Psychology gained from Northwest University. His thesis was on the measurement and development of resilience in call centres.

Deadline Date for bookings:
Monday morning, 12 July 2010

Space is limited so please secure your place ASAP!

This event is accredited for 2 CEUs

We look forward to seeing you at the event!

The Western Cape Branch of SIOPSA