How to Navigate Your Greenhouse Business Succession Plan During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The workplace new normal in the wake of COVID-19 is becoming clearer each day as companies recalibrate and reassess their business models and workforces.
Workforce assessments to better understand the skills present and the skills needed for the future are taking place now, with the hopes that career maps and succession plans for the years ahead will come out of it. But what does succession planning look like in this new normal? Where a year ago, the job market was competitive and candidates were hard to come by, the labor pool is now flooded with unemployed workers seeking new opportunities.
Where do those people fit the future of our organizations, including controlled-environment agriculture businesses? How do we help the people currently working for our organizations chart a course for the future that will spur their growth, ensure retention, and help the business remain agile and able to sustain the quality of leadership needed for success?
Succession planning has long been a part of any HR practitioners’ thinking, but the pandemic has presented significant challenges to focusing on it.
Read more in this article from David Rice at HR Exchange Network.
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