The document discusses strategies for transforming workplace culture and strategies in a post-COVID environment. It emphasizes the need to unleash sustainable speed through flattening structures, empowering agile teams, and engaging future leaders. Survey data shows that many employers have not clearly communicated workplace plans or prepared employees. Effective strategies include empowering frontline leaders to make faster decisions, creating social connections, developing learning capabilities, keeping employees informed of plans, and planning for uncertainty.
3. 1
THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN IS...
Sources: World Economic Forum 2018, TedEx Los Angeles 2018
65% of children
entering primary school
will work in jobs that
don't exist yet
10 years of progress now
is an equivalent of 100
years of 18th century or...
...the first 1000 years
A.D.
Nearly 58 million new
jobs will be created by
2022
5. 2
WE NEED TO UNLEASH THE CULTURE OF SUSTINABLE SPEED
Rethink ways of working Reimagine structure Reshape talent
1. Speed up and delegate
decision making
2. Step up execution
excellence
3. Cultivate extraordinary
partnership
1. Flatten the structure
2. Unleash agile,
empowered teams
3. Make hybrid work,
work
1. Engage tomorrow's
leaders today
2. Learn how to learn
3. Rethink the role of
CEOs and leaders
Source: McKinsey&Company 2020
6. BUT DO EMPLOYERS HAVE PROPER SPEED IN PREPRING
POST-COVID-19 WORKPLCE STRATEGY
My employer has communicated
a clear plan of action in response
to COVID-19
Source: The Gallup Organization Panel Mid-May 2020, Mid-June 2020
2
My organization cares about my
overall well being
My immediate supervisor keeps me
informed about what is going on in
my organization
50% 40%
I feel well prepred to do my job
54% 41%
41% 50%50% 41% 51% 42%
May 2020 June 2020
7. IT IS NOT EASY TO BE READY FOR UNKNOWN BUT THERE IS
A LOT THAT CAN BE DONE NOW
Source: Deloitte Insights 2020
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Many leaders
are still in the
early stages of
developing
return-to-
workplace
strategies, and
planning
maturity levels
vary
Both nature of
roles and
locations
should be
considered in
terms of
feasibility of
remote work
and health risk
It’s critical for
organizations
to consider
pandemic
management
protocols
(PMP)
Companies
may have to
reorient levers
of building
employee
engagement
In the longer
term, many
companies are
evaluating
permanent
remote work
for some of
their
workforce
Even as firms
re-enter,
leaders should
prepare for
future
scenarios, such
as another
potential stay-
at-home
8. Unleashing speed through empowering front line
leaders and making faster decisions, creating social
connections with customers, suppliers, competitors
for finding solutions faster, developing learning
capability by using full potential of employees
4
ORGANIZATIONS NEED TO ACT NOW
Creating deeper and more trusted relations with
employees by keeping them frequently and
exhaustively informed about workplace strategy
plans
Getting comfortable with dealing with uncertainty
and taking consistent and brave actions regarding
workplace strategy planning and execution
