Employees react to prolonged uncertainty in different ways. Learn about the tools you need to mitigate the stress created COVID-19.

Situation: Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Prolonged uncertainty, an invisible threat, and facing an unknown future create intense stress on your workforce. Employees will react in different ways. Business managers and HR leaders have the platform to mitigate this stress to a large degree using various tools.

This webinar will help prepare you for restarting onsite production. Drs. Stacy Feiner and Christina Moran will walk through various scenarios for communicating with employees and customers, staying in compliance, keeping everyone healthy and engaged, and bringing your workforce together for success.

• Returning to work vs unemployment: from both the employer's and employees' standpoints
• New safety protocols: social distancing, PPE, screenings, sick leave, reporting
• Establishing a health safety officer

Solution: Communicating with a One Voice Strategy

The story you tell your employees is your public story. Communicating with employees presents an opportunity to share, in greater detail, how the company’s mission is driving decisions, choices, and responses during the crisis. A communication strategy is as much about team building, messaging the mission, and unifying the workforce, as it is about disseminating information, providing instruction, and offering reassurance. Finally, the strategy should also serve as a project plan for communicating to whom, in what order, what vehicles, how often, and where to find resources and ask questions. Prepare as much as possible before distributing any communications. Also consider email lists, access to various accounts, where to direct responses, and questions. TIP: Don't underestimate the power of a communications strategy to make a significant impact within your company and among clients, partnerships and communities