As companies begin planning their employee engagement strategies for the next phase of the COVID-19 response, what’s always mattered still matters. Lessons learned from the past few months should be combined with practices that have proven successful prior to the pandemic to support a productive and engaged workforce during a time of continued change.

Take-aways

• Assessing the most effective channels for communicating with employees going through very different experiences
• Helping leaders adjust their communications when employees are at different stages of “back to work”
• Support and sustain your company’s unique cultural elements that unite different groups of employees