Contents
Basics - Why is professional offboarding important?
- Importance of offboarding in the employee lifecycle and for the corporate culture.
- Strategic advantages: Employer branding, alumni networks, re-hiring potential.
- Digitization as support: tools for document storage and knowledge transfer.
Designing offboarding scenarios in a practical way
- Specific recommendations for dealing with various reasons for leaving the company.
- Make success measurable: Important KPIs e.g. feedback rate, satisfaction of remaining employees, return rate, time to replacement.
Communication in offboarding
- Clear and respectful communication with remaining teams.
- Professional external communication: How to maintain a positive public image.
- Tips for proactive communication on platforms such as Kununu, Glassdoor & Co.
Using offboarding as a sustainable statement
- Demonstrate corporate values authentically: Positive effects on the employer brand.
- Measures for the long-term maintenance of alumni networks.
- Data protection-compliant tools and platforms for keeping in touch.
Creative approaches
- Boomerang hiring, "the talking helps card", the "golden comeback ticket" and much more.
- Practical examples: How companies successfully maintain contact with alumni and increase return rates.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
- Understanding the professional design of an offboarding process.
- Recognize how positive offboarding strengthens the corporate culture and puts people at the center.
- Anchoring offboarding as an important HR statement in the company.
- Turning outgoing employees into positive ambassadors .
- Consideration of potential returnees as valuable resources and key persons.
Methods
Trainer input, best-practice examples, case studies, guidelines, checklists, roadmaps, discussion, exchange of experience.
Recommended for
HR managers, executives & HR developers who want to establish or further develop an appreciative offboarding process or reflect on and optimize their existing process.
Start dates and details

Thursday, 06.11.2025
09:00 am - 1:00 pm

Thursday, 21.05.2026
09:00 am - 1:00 pm