Is Flexibility on Your CV? The Skills Companies Need Now

Oct 28, 2020 27 min read In: Leadership Tags: communication, company culture, crisis leadership, Success, workplace By: robertkovach 0 Comment

Hiring in 2020 is down. That is hardly a headline in the midst of a pandemic that has impacted millions of people around the world and nearly every country on earth. But, companies do have to find ways to keep operating, and they’ll need to be able to do so in an environment that looks a lot more like 2020 and a lot less like. . .ever before. Let’s not call it post-coronavirus; let’s say post-coronavirus reaction. What do companies need as they hire with an expectation that where we are now is the scenario for at least

What we’ve learned and what to do next — Getting companies ready for 2021

Oct 14, 2020 33 min read In: Leadership Tags: company strategy, crisis leadership, decision-making, digital transformation, leadership, strategy By: robertkovach 0 Comment

Chief technology officers and heads of people development & management will be front and center in 2021. The future of the workplace is a digital workplace. However, as much as we thought we had technologically advanced in the last couple of decades, 2020 has completely changed the landscape. One Deloitte study articulated that one of the toughest balances facing companies getting ready for 2021 is “the tension between preparing for a return to previous activities and routines — getting back to work— while also embracing a new reality — rethinking work.” CTOs will play

Coaching Through COVID — Managing People During Coronavirus

Sep 23, 2020 25 min read In: Leadership Tags: company culture, crisis leadership, crisis management, leadership, management, workplace By: robertkovach 0 Comment

Around the world, 2020 is going to be remembered as extraordinarily difficult. The coronavirus pandemic has passed the six-month mark, and impacted millions around the world. Sadly, it’s not only not over, it’s very possibly going to have another wave this autumn. With a vaccine months away, at best, we have to learn to live with COVID-19 as a new way of life, not an event to get past. In our work lives, that affects a lot of how we do things. Managing people during coronavirus, for example, is now largely done remotely. And we need to do

Finding Real Talent Virtually: Interviewing During Coronavirus

Aug 12, 2020 23 min read In: HR Tags: crisis leadership, crisis management, hiring, hiring strategy, interviewing, talent mix By: robertkovach 0 Comment

While many companies are suffering difficult financial circumstances during the pandemic, there are of course, still organisations recruiting, interviewing and hiring. And while interviews by videoconference are hardly new, for many an entirely virtual process is not the typical process. So how do you adjust interviewing during coronavirus? How do you maintain standards to ensure quality candidates, but accommodate the realities of social distancing?

Never Waste a Crisis — Shifting to Long-Term Digital Transformation During Coronavirus

Jul 22, 2020 30 min read In: Workplace Tags: crisis leadership, crisis management, digital era, digital transformation, leadership, technology By: robertkovach 0 Comment

Most days organisations don’t make long-term, enterprise-wide decisions based on current events. But these are not most days. The coronavirus has shifted from an unexpected, life-altering, abrupt event, to a universal, dominant, ongoing presence in our lives. In fact, “presence”, understates it. It has become the lens through which we see most of our decisions. If there is a silver lining to world events this year, it might be that necessity has not only bred invention but provided the platform for long-term digital transformation during coronavirus. For businesses everywhere, digital transformation begun during coronavirus was employed as a

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