As we head hopefully towards the end of the lockdown and the beginning of the “new normal”, it is a good time to take a pause and reflect. How did you get through the pandemic, did you pivot what you provided? Did some of your staff really step up to the plate and surprise you, plus probably themselves with what they achieved? Many people always assume that restructuring is a negative concept, someone looking to make savings. But that is not always the case, you have brought your company through the pandemic, but if the company and the markets it serves have changed, now is a good time to look at whether you need to restructure.
A New Hope
What do you need for the future of your company, has Covid opened a different product or market for you? It could be whilst the pandemic was on, some staff discovered skills they did not know they had. This means that the exercise is not just to discover where you want to take the company, but also potentially your staff may also want to reconsider the career paths they had mapped out for themselves. If you decide to add services to what you provide or add to the ways you deliver them, then you need to work out, after having discussions with them where you see them fitting in the new company structure.
The Way Forward
With all these changes that have happened to your company, you will have to make sure that the right training is made available to the staff that require it, and their records are correctly updated. Is this something you do, or have you delegated this to another staff member? How do you keep your staff training and personnel records – have you taken advantage of cloud storage?
Once you have the staff in their new positions you must go through the recruitment process to either replace the staff who now have other posts, or to fill a post where you do not have someone with the necessary skillset. But here lies another question for you – how robust are your recruitment plans? Who is going to manage all the recruitment adverts, sorting through the applications, sending rejections letters, and arranging the interviews? How are you going to achieve social distancing, what will your view be if your prospective interviewee prefers to have the interview completed over zoom?
This is what it boils down to time you and your staff spend working away from your core income generating work. That is where we at AJ HR Solutions can step in, we can work on staff and company training plans, train people on Breathe HR a cloud storage system and manage your recruitment process for you. We are here to help you, not just for those times when you have HR issues, so you can get back to earning money, why not contact us for chat today?
