Your Employees Stepped Up Amid the Pandemic. What Now?
It is time to invest in people’s mental wellbeing
Since COVID-19 hit, organizations have been scrambling to pandemic-proof operations by adopting remote-working. The focus has, understandably, been on crisis management and ensuring business continuity. Profits, the global economy, and the livelihoods of billions of people were at stake.
If the stock market is any indication to go by, and the initial shock at the end of Q1 notwithstanding, the corporate sector has done remarkably well.
No doubt some business models are better adapted to the new, socially-distanced reality than others, but by and large, businesses have their workforces to be thankful for. Workers everywhere have stepped up to the challenge.
The question is now: What next?
For organizations that have managed to stabilize, perhaps even thrive amid the pandemic, there is a strong argument for starting to focus on the mental wellbeing of employees.
According to remote leadership expert and author, Laura Goodrich, teams go through five stages as they confront a…
