Time to Redesign Corporate Cultures to Face Pandemic Challenges

Time to Redesign Corporate Cultures to Face Pandemic Challenges

The outbreak of Pandemic has impacted livelihood, lifestyles and organizations worldwide. While this situation has given a lot of challenging situations to human race; pandemic has also made the human race to utilize this situation as an opportunity and get smarter for the days to come by.

The world was absolutely not ready for pandemic when it hit us; now that pandemic has hit our lives, we have explored options to co-exist along with pandemic, but survival has become the importance.

The world needs a safe, protective and healthy environment; free from pandemic to survive, however this can be anticipated in 7-8 months from now as the vaccination would probably take this stipulated time. Leaders worldwide need to redesign the business model considering the present pandemic situation.

The future can challenge organizations in various ways.Some challenges which can be foreseen is:

• need of business,
• clients higher expectations,
• financial constraints,
• resource skills and productivity matrix,
• return of investment (ROI)
• cutting edge technologies vs. cost impact vs. profit
• increase in cost, expenditures
• real estate and infrastructure cost for the organization

With the above challenges that can be foreseen, customers would not only want to cover the damages lost impacted during the pandemic, but also would want to have the benchmark performances from the business.

The emerging expectations of the customers, businesses need to ensure the resources recruited are extremely talented, skilled with anOut of Box Thinking Concepts, the resources recruited should be “highly creative, with great“thought leadership”capabilities. Well, the question now is; do we have leaders today in the business who are creative??

Looking at today’s facts, majority of the employees working in any corporate organization are under immense pressure by their clients, management team. Hence employees, mid-management team are seen performing their duties with 'frustration' and 'just do it' attitude because the Boss wants the Job to be done!! Will this be the right attitude for the organizations to sustain and survive as top notch organizations in the future? This is a question the management team has to answer to themselves!!

Businesses to survive with the highest customer expectations, and with the challenges foreseen, some solutions an organization needs to design and strategise are:

• Re-designing of hiring process at a management team
• Re-designing of job description for management team

A complete redesign at a management level is necessary. The members at the management are the change agents, players who will have to sphere head the complete changes of the upcoming challenges with an attitude to succeed.

Management team are the members of the organization who architect the solutions to the clients; hence the status quo of the recruiting process needs to be re-looked and redesigned.

To ensure an organization getspro-active, out-of-the-box thinkers and creatorswho can drive thought leadership very strongly across the businesses; organizations need to look at recruitingentrepreneurs of small businesses, freelancers, consultants;who come with strong experience at management level.The professionals working as entrepreneurs, freelancers, consultants work with many lines of business across industries, domains and locations.;This makes them very unique in the market as they have strong management skills, exposure, knowledge, experience, and thought leadership unlike employees having limited visibility.

The biggest challenge now is RECRUITMENT!! As the saying goes:

THE BEST CANDIDATES COME FOR THE INTERVIEWS, BUT THE WORST GET RECRUITED!!

Does an organization hire the right candidate for a job with 4-5 discussions? The probability seen is very less.Candidates having the right skills, knowledge, experience, thought leadership will not be tolerant to the inbuilt gaps of the recruitment process. Businesses and Organization cannot afford to lose out on the best candidates who can be the best management team, as professionals make an Organization and Organization do not make professionals.

While looking at capable, experience, knowledgeable, thought leaders during the recruitment process is one channel for the organizations; businesses and organizations can also open the door of recruitment's by absorbing capable leaders through a contract based channel. A contract based employment will be a WIN-WIN situation to both the employers and employees as the organizations can get the right candidates with a (KISS - Keep it SMART and SHORT) format recruitment process.

The contract designed can be with preconditions on the achievable targets, invoice cost, and contract timelines. Professionals who take this opportunity of the contract and meets, outshines the targets as designed in the contract, the organization can provide an option for a permanent employment. In the event where the professional fails to meet the contract targets, the contract would expire as per the clauses and timelines.This would be a WIN-WIN situation for both the organizations and the entrepreneurs of small businesses, freelancers and consultants.

Some benefits by incorporating this process are:

• Organizations will have strong leaders who shall change the game in the business
• Top-line Goals
• Cost saving model
• Creative thoughts that will come to the table that a business would have not thought through
• Strong change management, thought leadership team
• Longevity
• Highest customer and client satisfaction
• Return of Investment (ROI)
• Replication of ideas created by thought leaders in and across internal business lines

I sign off here and welcome your feedback. Be Safe, Stay Healthy in Pandemic. 

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