Special Guest: Claire Chandler
Claire brings 30+ years of HR and Talent Acquisition background. She has spent years working with employee/candidate experiences and how managers develop and grow their employees. She brings a great mix of experience, guiding people on employee behaviors and how to create a positive and productive work environment.
Today's Podcast Perspective
- Candidates / Employees impact by the Pandemic/Covid19 and how Employers deal with those impacts
- Mental health challenges and stresses are not bubbling to the top
- Two-Income Households - how do companies handle working arrangements when kids are forced to do virtual learning
- Parents have to choose between their jobs and their kids
- Companies need to stop being so stuck in past ways of doing things
- Is it fair for people that are single or don't have hardships have to pick up the slack?
- Understanding what are reasonable accommodations
- How does FMLA play a part during a pandemic
- Companies have to decide for all their employees, how do you handle special exceptions
- You can make special exceptions, especially if positions are not deemed essential employees in the field
- Companies pivoted think it was going to be interim, but now since it's a long term effect there are complications on managing differently
- How do you get employees back to work safely
- Employee productivity issues - making decisions on an office by office basis
- It would help if you considered people's situation in ways never done before
- Companies have also to consider dual family incomes and children homeschooling
- Re-Shaping the way we work from working from home, remote workspaces, closing down offices and doing everything virtually
- Managing people in the Pandemic, Consider the mental health and stresses people have before reacting
- Being empathetic without giving too much flexibility
- When you create a difficult environment that doesn't allow for flexibility performance and productivity will likely go down
- Organizations and Leadership need to be collaborative but there is no such thing as black and white situations
- Middle Managers are in the most precarious position with all of this happening because they are the messenger, but not the decision-maker.
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Claire Chandler
President & Founder | Talent Boost
E: claire@talentboost.net
www.clairechandler.net
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