From the course: Supporting a Grieving Employee: A Manager's Guide
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Addressing grief in team meetings
From the course: Supporting a Grieving Employee: A Manager's Guide
Addressing grief in team meetings
- When collective grief is occurring in your community or at your company, it is really important to acknowledge it. And a good place to do that can be your team meeting. Now, it's going to feel like an elephant in the room, if you don't say something. So, as the manager, it is your responsibility to be the one who brings it up. You may say to yourself, "Well, no one's talking about it. "No one's asking me about it." That's most likely because they're looking to you, as the manager, to take the lead. So, it can be really important to come to the conversation with some ideas of what you want to say. For example, "Hey, I know that this is going on. "I know we have this situation happening here. "I honor that it is a really difficult time. "Let's talk about it. "What questions do you have? "What would you like to share? "Let's connect on what we're feeling." I've found in my trainings, that when I start talking to people…
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.