No one could have seen this year coming, but all of us have had to deal with its effects. One of the silver linings of hardship is that it helps you learn new lessons to be used in the future, provided you’re lucky enough to get through relatively unscathed.
So, we put to you – what has your business learned from the pandemic? Don’t worry if it’s little, because some of us have just been concerned with survival and breaking even at a time of great uncertainty – it can feel like the reflections and lessons should come later, instead.
So, in a non-judgemental, open, friendly manner, let’s consider what businesses may have learned from the pandemic, what they could learn, and more importantly what they could do to prepare for a second wave or other issues that may rock us in the future. Depending on your industry, this can be highly appropriate or miss the mark entirely. If your restaurant has been closed down, for instance, no amount of allowing your waiters to ‘work from home’ will help you.
For office businesses however, the following might help:
Remote Working Potential
Of course, it’s quite essential for many businesses to find new methods of working outside of the ‘come to the office’ requirement, in order to slow down the transmission of the virus. But it’s also true that this has allowed meetings to become quicker and more to-the-point through programs like Zoom, and it’s also ensured apps like Slack and Hangouts have become the de-facto communication platforms. Remote working potential is a worthwhile approach to care for. Have you invested in it? How might you structure this as the norm even in a post-Covid world? Those questions can be very instructive.
Disseminating Briefs & Information
It’s worthwhile to know how to best disseminate briefs and information that may be working for you. For instance, do you send out a daily newsletter to keep people on the same page? How many conference calls are appropriate? Do you have regular cloud storage or assignment delivery systems where work can be submitted? How might this integrate with your outsourced help, allowing you to work on both fronts? Now is the time to streamline, and perfect your digital approach.
You Can Never Prepare Too Much
You can never prepare too much. From saving an operational budget in times of difficulty to using Managed IT services in order to thoroughly ensure your integrated digital access requirements are continually upheld, to ensuring cybersecurity is a thorough element of your protected, systemized productivity, you can never prepare too much for the future, and that becomes most stark when issues such as a global pandemic take centre stage. If you can focus on this approach, with care and enthusiasm, odds are you’ll be in the right place for defending your enterprise when unpredictability strikes.
With this advice, we hope your business can learn more and prepare more for uncertainty, using this pandemic as a springboard.
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