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President Rajbir introduced Frank Newman, our guest speaker. Frank is a Human Resources Professional. He has had extensive experience in several fields of business, implementing innovative HR solutions, focusing on creating a business culture where the best people do their best work every day. His main focus today was 1/ discussing the changes in business culture as the result of Covid. 2/ considering what the future of the business world will be. What will the workplace look like for our kids and grand kids? Frank has had his own company for 7 years. He said the business world has not experienced such change since the Industrial revolution. But there is cautious optimism about the future. I will touch on some issues he mentioned. Frank said that he would give a link to his talk to Rajbir if anyone wants more info. Recent relevant issues: Black lives matter. Sexual harrassment in the workplace. Working from home. Zoom meetings. etc etc. Employers have had to become more agile. Employees are facing a 'gig' economy where there is more movement from job to job over a working career. Employer agility is required to address more on-line activity, tighter profit lines, being more risk aware, supply chain issues, flexible work force etc. Covid created a tsunami of resignations. Employers need to try and hang on to good employees. The issue of Hybrid Teams. Lots of mental health issues. Ask employees ' how they are doing'. Practical issues such as sick time, training changes due to covid, employee benefits, working from home and working longer and being paid less as a result. Paying less is not a good idea. Keep in touch with employees and give performance reviews. Treat people with respect. What the Future Holds: Jobs will have a strong service orientation, they will be highly technical, need fluency of ideas, need increased agility, ability to memorize and be a good networker. Wow. He gave us a lot of food for thought. Frank was thanked by Paul McMenemy. It was good to have a real live meeting. Please come to the President's Levy on Saturday. |
