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Showing that you care about staff by communicating, allowing leadership to see your talents and remembering not to use Zoom as a tool to fire employees en-masse are key talking points this month…
Communication
With the business landscape evolving seemingly each day, HR needs to be a genuine hub for communication, so employees and workers can have their questions answered whilst decisions, by the executive, are delivered in a transparent manner. One firm who has done this is Iris, an ad agency headquartered in London. Harriet Shurville, Chief People Officer at the organisation, explains that their communication strategy involves delivering materials to furloughed workers, creating constantly updated FAQ docs and allowing the CEO to field employee questions via Zoom each week.
HR as a leadership partner
In the last recession, it was widely accepted that the CEOs would turn to CFOs for advice on how to work their way through it. Now, many commentators believe it is CHROs and HR chiefs that will help navigate this crisis. An Economist article The coronavirus crisis thrusts corporate HR chiefs into the spotlight highlights the work that HR is doing during this crisis and how leaders are turning to this function. Bestselling author Dan Schawbel and Professor Dave Ulrich have also penned well-received LinkedIn posts on the matter.
