The news is hard enough. Have the first steps and conversation scripts ready.
A letter to review. Questions about benefits. People to contact. A job search to start. Open the tool for the task in front of you and follow the next step.
- The First 72 Hours: a sequence for the first questions, contacts, and tasks.
- The Severance Negotiation Scripts: wording to adapt as you prepare for discussions about the offer.
- The Financial Advisor Prep Brief: details to gather and questions to bring.
- The Career Expansion Framework: a ninety-day structure for working on income opportunities.
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Most people get laid off and figure it out as they go.
The letter has a deadline. Access ends. Benefits questions pile up while the people you need to call are already gone.
This plan gives you an order to work in, wording you can adapt, and the questions to bring to the advisor and the negotiation, so the first days are spent acting instead of searching.
The four documents.




What is prepared, and what you finish.
Already prepared
- The first hours and days, in order, with the questions to ask and the records to keep.
- Scripts for the severance conversation, written to be adapted.
- A brief with the details to gather and the questions to bring to a financial advisor.
- A ninety-day career framework with weekly rhythm, outreach wording, and worksheets.
What you finish
A clear starting order, questions prepared, and the next career task identified.
First use
- 1After a layoff, open The First 72 Hours.
- 2Follow the sequence and gather the details it calls for.
- 3Open the matching script or brief when you reach that task.
Before a layoff, review the advisor brief and gather the information you are entitled to keep, such as your own pay records and benefits summaries. Do not copy confidential employer material.
Who it fits, and what it cannot do.
For anyone who has been laid off, or wants the first steps ready in case it happens. It contains none of the $27 guide and none of the $57 plan.
The Layoff Action Plan
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