As well as enormous human impacts, the coronovirus crisis will change the way business is done. It will likely also drive invention and innovation at scales not seen outside times of war or other major crises. HR and talent teams are always impacted by the changes created by crises, and in a human crisis (as a pandemic is), these impacts are larger and more significant than in other crises. So. Here we talent professionals are, being whipsawed by the huge and varied short term impacts on workforces, by a very high level of medium- and long-term uncertainty, and by our completely understandable human fear. And we must do our jobs, including an urgent need to adapt.
Anyone else wish they’d paid more attention during all those VUCA discussions?
Depending on your industry, you are handling a range of layoff, furlough and new work design challenges, at the very least. Unless you are dealing with a huge recruiting surge, of course. Not many people are experiencing no change, unfortunately. For the jobs that are not lost or furloughed, these are a few of the most common adaptations talent professionals are dealing with:
That’s your next few months, then. Be sure to take care of yourself.
This is the mother of all periods of rapid change for talent professionals, and some teams are better equipped to handle rapid change than others. Adapting to change is not new, but it is all too often driven reactively (such as, ahem, in a crisis) rather than proactively. And yet, there are a lot of other things we will need to be adapting to soon enough.
Here are a few of the major changes we need to be adapting to in the next few years, some driven by coronavirus, some by megatrends.
And who knows what else? Will you be ready? Will we be learning from our current enforced adaption so we come out the other side better equipped to proactively adapt? I hope so.
*Personal anecdote on remote working: So many workers have quickly transitioned to remote work recently that when the monitor on my very well worn work at home workstation up and died 3 weeks ago and I had to buy a television to replace it because no brick/mortar store had ANY monitors left and the wait time for delivery was long. And I am in a major city!
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