Business Crisis Tips
Author: Clay Hillary
1. Let’s leaders get down to the field
In times of emergency, it is time to “be on the court.” Maximally reduces the meetings and board meetings and when we perform that are brief, precise and conclusive. Our people will be moved and motivated if he sees us and we sit elbow-to-shoulder “in the daily battle. Peguémonos the operation that today more than ever we need to split hairs in terms of quality, warmth and efficiency of service, productivity, cost, speed of response and attention to complaints. Let’s be real leaders, customers demand it and our staff deserve it.
2. We are good negotiators
A person who behaves unethically or liability is not a good negotiator or a good politician, in accordance with the true meaning of the word, politics is an inherently human activity whose purpose is to achieve, by consensus, the common good.
From this point of view, us become good negotiators, we are good politicians, responsible, ethical, and continuously seek the common good of the company moving away from the “shock” and “internal wars” so common in organizations and both the remaining energy management and other staff.
3. That downsizing is not your first choice
Contrary to popular belief, the downsizing is only one solution to lower costs in the short term, medium and long term such a “solution” is reversed because what goodbye is not only people, but we take to the street intelligence matters Gray, useful experience. Other steps we can take to save and when no other choice and we must necessarily lower the payroll, let us have such a way that human talent preponderance of short-term savings.
When we are pushed, as a last resort, cut staff to remember that even when the number of people decreases, the amount of work will remain the same so we have that the pair of lower payroll, redesign our processes to make them work feasible with the staff that stays in the company.