Korn Ferry has organised a series of live-streamed events for companies around the world on how to deal with some of the issues created by the spreading Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. This disruptive time calls for disruptive answers, according to the global consultancy. Companies of all sizes and industries are having to grapple with one unexpected talent issue after another, from keeping employees safe to managing productivity and leading a suddenly virtual workforce.
To help companies tackle some of these challenges, Korn Ferry has organised a series of live-streamed events – ‘Leading Through and Beyond Covid-19’ – to help companies deal with the pandemic by reconsidering ways of working. It will deliver the seven sessions, lasting approximately 30 minutes on weekdays starting tomorrow on Tuesday 17th March, 2020.
Topics to be covered include:
- Leading in a time of crisis: Now is a time for leaders to remind yourselves of what your people need you to do, and to pause and think about what type of leader you need to ‘be’ for others. We won’t have all the answers, and silence isn’t an effective response. We need to meet people where they are and understand their concerns, and we want them to stay adaptable and focused as our ways of working and the work itself changes.
- Social distancing without revenue disruption: What happens when in-person meetings aren’t possible? This is the reality for many enterprise sellers as the global spread of COVID-19 drives selling and buying organisations to adopt no-travel, no-meeting and/or social distancing policies. As a result, many companies find themselves with large sales teams of frequent flyers grounded in the office, functioning more like inside sales teams. How to keep sellers focused on performance over presence, and creating customer intimacy in a virtual context.
- Keeping your people engaged and productive through the crisis: As more companies shut their office doors and ask their employees to work virtually, maintaining high levels of engagement and productivity won’t be easy. But with a proven approach to remote connections and team management, it can be done well and set up employees for a seamless return to regular ways of working.
- Protecting your company’s economic health: The behavioural changes needed to fight the public health threat are resulting in an immediate decline in revenue for most businesses. From near-term take-out tactics to longer-term changes to operating models and rewards, developing the right response to those economic challenges will help to ensure a full and quick recovery.
- Employing agile reward strategies for a volatile world: Organisations are grappling with unprecedented reward-related challenges. What strategies and actions should you take in response to the evolving health emergency? How do you prioritise changes to your reward programs? What implementation actions are most effective in a volatile health environment? Korn Ferry will discuss the challenges and impacts of the current global situation, and share learnings from prior disruptive events.
- Crisis-proofing your talent processes: The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting many talent processes. But it doesn’t need to stop them. From talent reviews to hiring to assessments, companies are converting in-person processes to virtual formats at a dizzying pace. Learnings to apply and pitfalls to avoid when creating virtual experiences that are built to withstand COVID-19 and in the long term, will help to accelerate the workforce of the future.
- Creating effective learning experiences in a virtual environment: In times of business disruption, learning and development is needed more than ever. But, how do you keep up momentum of your learning programmes that are designed to be delivered face-to-face in the time of social distancing? Using common traditional corporate learning formats as examples, Korn Ferry offers best practices for converting to virtual learning experiences.
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