"lessons" from the crisis: Skills Development



Lessons from Covid 19



 The Covid-19 crisis has caused severe problems for the economy of our country as well as globally.  The fragility of global value chains revealed by the Covid-19 crisis could lead domestic manufacturers and related industries to re-examine their strategies for locating part of their production, distribution and sales activities. Resilience on one's skills and talents within the organization is one of the crucial action for business recovery and business continuity.

Organizations must learn the "lessons" from the crisis:  The critical lesson is the significance of people skills. Identifying right skills, remove  unfit or provide the needy with the skills development of recovery & sustenance. 

Identifying the skills for recovery and business continuity is the primordial step. Skills development is there from the earliest days of human beings societies. Whether the pre-industrial era or post, skills have been at the heart of the communities.  Skill is the ability to combine resources to act on tasks effectively in a given situation. These skills are covered with knowledge, know-how and behavioral skills. People's mobilization of right skills for recovery and business continuity, contributes to the achievement of the goals. This is further  entrusted upon them,  an individual, to the success of his team as well as that of the organization.

The development of skills is therefore considered according to the context in which it takes place - and the nature of the needs that this induces—knowing that it is always necessary to combine collective and individual needs. It cannot be dissociated from existing training modalities or access to it. It cannot be disjointed from the professional reality experienced by learners, in terms of work organization methods and interactions in particular.

However, during lock down / MCO, the quick adoption remote working changed the way of overall work culture. Video conferencing, online meetings,  chat tools had become common when they weren't before.

In this context, leaders must face the urgent and complex challenge represented by the reopening. This offers companies the opportunity, dictated by the need, situation and to create those skills in which they should have invested before the pandemic.

The new skills and processes are to be more digital, data-driven, have more variable cost structures,  agile operations and automation.  This agility will be essential for the long-term capabilities they want to build. The CEOs will have to consider the steps taken for the reopening as the beginning of a long path of profound transformation.

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