Work it Out
COVID-19 challenges has largely changed the way we interact at work, interact with each other and how we connect with our co-workers, friends and loved ones. It’s the ultimate game-changer in terms of how we relate to each other.
If we are not front-line workers or in-service professionals, we would most likely be in a work from home arrangement. That basically throws out every notion that there are X, Y and Z managers and we move to an OKR modality.
Perhaps gone are the days where employees are measured by whether they are hardworking, lazy or a mixture of both qualities. There is perhaps an increasing transition to measuring them via objectives set by management, and measures of performance by way of key results. The outcome driven approach might be the better way to manage our workforce given that it is difficult for middle managers to police how employees work.
In the current work from home arrangement, employers have to allow their stay at home workers work it out on their own way and conduct regular check-ins to ensure that they are suitably engaged on the objectives and on their way to producing the outcomes required.