Rebuilding trust: Leadership after layoffs
summary
A four‑part REST framework claims to rebuild psychological safety and operational clarity after layoffs by doing concrete things: attend HR meetings and keep departing people connected, remove access promptly while posting thank‑you threads, run welcome workshops and write a new team charter, and reprioritise or sunset a feature while funding up‑skilling from company budgets so engineers take new ownership. These steps take about 18 months to mature and report restored trust, steadier velocity, and new internal experts.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:55Layoffs as a manager
- 5:41REST leadership framework
- 6:44Rebuilding trust and safety
- 7:51Setting new priorities
- 8:33Stabilizing the team
- 9:14Turning challenges into opportunities
- 9:58Immediate aftermath
- 13:52Team changes and integration
- 17:00Organizational restructuring
- 18:25Overwhelming workload
- 21:15Leadership lessons
- 22:19Lasting impact of layoffs
- 23:02Call to action
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