As you must know that the second wave of the COVID-19 has arrived, and it is deadly. In America alone, the record highest death rate due to the pandemic is about three thousand deaths a day. Amongst such conditions, it is imperative to ensure your survival. While people with secure jobs have been able to keep themselves safe from the effects of COVID-19, people who run businesses and whose livelihoods solely depend on the companies have been hit the most. How can you manage your businesses while making sure you don't risk your employees' or workers' lives and ensure each one's survival? The Center for Disease Control and Preservation (CDC) has published a list of things you can do. Moreover, this blog will also refer to some businesses that have been able to sail through these challenging times.
Set Up a Mechanism:
This entails that to run your business, running on a physical space, you should arrange a series of meetings with your team - from employees to the cleaning staff- in the pandemic. Collectively you can decide the working hours, the number of sick leaves allowed per person, exceptional cases, major responsibilities, and above all - ensuring that none of you risks their life.
Use Technology:
As a business owner and a stakeholder, you can minimize the use of physical workspaces and shift to online platforms. Many businesses have devised mobile applications that take a person's history, and depending on the answers; it decides whether or not one is fit to come to a physical workspace.
Bigger Projects and their Back-up Plans:
For any company or any business, some projects are of immense importance. These projects are what demand your undivided attention, focus, feedback, and effort. The major blows that small businesses or even established businesses have gotten are not being able to cater to these mega projects for various reasons. Lack of communication and strategizing a specific plan are two of those principal reasons. Therefore, as a business owner, you will have to prioritize some projects, and in case the people working on these projects get sick, a back-up plan also has to be there - led by a different team. All of this is possible only through clear communication.
An Example of a Business that Survived During the Pandemic:
Many businesses and companies survive as a result of their creativity and innovation during these extraordinary times.
Moriarty's Gem Art: it is an art gallery, and lockdowns during the pandemic affected their businesses severely, so they started building their presence on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. They live-streamed and showcased their art gallery online. Their business survived.
Conclusion:
At last, it all comes down to how creative, innovative and focused you are. When you have all three of these, all you need are good communication skills for your business to grow further. Remember, businesses are established by people, and people need to communicate. Effective communication can do wonders even during the worst of times.