Addressing Current Challenges and Planning for Progress
As the Harvard Business Review - HBR (2020) feature points out, the business environment is changing. Thus, businesses that do not wish to be left behind must adapt (HBR, 2020). It is also important to note that individuals that want to continue being relevant in a competitive job market must also adapt. There are various courses of action that my organization and I could embrace at present so as to not only address present unprecedented challenges, but also lay the foundation for even greater success going forward.
To begin with, the organization could manage current challenges by ensuring that employees are advanced the relevant managerial support. This is especially important given that the COVID-19 pandemic has to a large extent informed novel operational formats (i.e. the need to work from home) that could be a challenge for most employees to navigate. Further, as HBR (2020) points out, in as far as new work formats are concerned, the...
With this in mind, the organization should advance the relevant managerial support to employees by ensuring...
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In the final analysis, it would also be prudent to note that to ensure that the organization emerges even stronger, there may be need to further enhance the skillsets of employees. Plenty of opportunities for this endeavor exist in the realms of customer relationship management, emergency/crisis management, etc. For instance, according to HBR (2020), customer preferences and priorities have been altered following the global COVID-19 pandemic. By ensuring that employees are equipped with the skills and capabilities necessary to establish, build and sustain long-term customer relationships, the organization will be in a better position to pull ahead of the competition.…
