The pandemic of COVID-19 is not over yet. Although the variant Omicron has milder symptoms, people around the world continue to die from this disease.
In Peru, the third wave arrived with 2022. Thousands of people have been infected and this has forced companies to once again implement teleworking or ‘home office’ when they were already working in the office as before the pandemic.
But, does the physical place where we work really matter to achieve the objectives of a company? What the pandemic has shown is that each of our houses can be adapted as a place where things are done, ordered (or objectives or goals are received) and where countless things can be worked on.
LOOK: Four learnings that 2021 left us for the future of work
Max Coloma, Accountant from the University of Piura (UDEP), MBA from ESAN University and professional with more than 20 years of experience in the world of business managementremember that the definition of management speaks of achieving objectives and finding ways to achieve them.
And he provides five recommendations for achieving goals at work no matter where the work is taking place:
- Sharing an inspiring purpose makes management easier. Workers need to understand why and for what they do their work. Connecting them with the organizational purpose facilitates the understanding of the defined objectives. Management is about achieving goals, understanding and sharing a common purpose gives them meaning.
- Leadership is about achieving goals through a team. The workspace can constantly change and what we recently experienced in the pandemic only confirms this. It is up to the leaders who have the responsibility to guide work teams to always surround themselves with the best possible people, define challenging objectives and provide the resources to achieve them.
- Establish methods to achieve the objectives. Always starting from the fact that ethics is not negotiable, we can work on PMO methods, agileinitiatives lean start up, routine management or any empirical method that each one can create. There are no limits to this and it depends on the type of problem to be solved.
- Take advantage of face-to-face meetings. Replacing them with meetings on the agenda of a virtual platform takes away the charm of a spontaneous meeting that breaks routine and energizes you to continue. It is the great challenge to solve for those who do telework and we must put our creative energy and human sensitivity into it
- Teleworking is one more option, let’s respect individualities. Each person has a unique personal and family reality. Due to this reality, it can no longer be a unilateral decision of companies (impose face-to-face attendance) and confronts them with the challenge of building mechanisms to promote collaboration and agility at work without losing human connections.
