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6 Steps for Using RACI for Downsizing

In this Fast Company article, “6 Steps that Leaders Can Take to Support Their Team Through Layoffs” author Nettie Nitzberg gives good advice about the best way to support your team through a reduction in force. She focuses her advice on how to maintain and even strengthen a great company culture through the challenges of letting members of the team go.

One of her recommendations is to stay grounded in the core tenets of good leadership: communication and transparency.

One of the main questions people will be asking is, “How will we get all the work done?” RACI can help to think through and then communicate the answer to this question. 

Here are six steps to take to apply RACI to redesigning the work of your team, with fewer members.

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