- For many, emergency WFH comes with several new challenges such as additional childcare responsibilities, sudden changes in role expectations, and negative impacts on wellbeing. These new challenges, coupled with previously existing ones, can result in poor performance. Owing to the lack of physical presence and cues, managers may struggle to identify that an employee’s performance is suffering. Even after identifying poor performance, it can be difficult to address remotely when such conversations would ideally be held in person.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Poor performance must be managed, despite the pandemic. Evaluating root causes of performance issues is more important than ever now that personal factors such as lack of childcare and eldercare for those working from home are complicating the issue.
Impact and Result
- Organizations need to have a clear process for improving performance for employees working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Provide managers with resources to help them identify performance issues and uncover their root causes as part of addressing overall performance. This will allow managers to connect employees with the required support while working with them to improve performance.
Guided Implementations
This guided implementation is a three call advisory process.
Call #1 - Assess how changes to goals and expectations during emergency WFH will impact the performance improvement process.
Call #2 - Review current performance improvement practices to adjust and integrate into the remote performance improvement practice.
Call #3 - Discuss communication of and training on the remote performance improvement process.
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this Blueprint, and what our clients have to say.
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care, London
Guided Implementation
9/10
$1,600
18
OPM
Guided Implementation
10/10
$30,023
47