Is Your Business Ready for a Post-Pandemic World? 3 Strategies to Ramp Up for the Turn of COVID

We are in the second quarter of 2020 now, and I suspect that what you thought 2020 would look like at this point in the year is quite different from reality. You are not alone. All of our original plans have been wiped clean.

Most likely, the change implemented in your business has sped up to a cadence of days, rather than weeks or months. If your business is one of the millions learning how to be remote for the first time, that means daily huddles on a camera are a new thing. We are in the game of rapid change and the winners will adapt to succeed, or is it?

It’s not just about how we can adapt quickly in this world of daily change and market fluctuations, but rather how we handle our re-entry into “normal” many weeks from now. Just like the missions NASA sends to space, we must plan for our re-entry before our rocket ever leaves the ground, but unfortunately, we were forced to launch without a plan for re-entry when societal changes forced our hand, and that’s why there’s no time like now to start planning again.

There is no doubt that our “normal” world after this pandemic will be vastly different from the “normal” that existed prior, but it won’t take long hours in a boardroom by yourself to whiteboard a crystal ball of the…