Workforce Management Tactics for Recession Challenges (Part 1 of 2)

Joe Wynne is a versatile Project Manager experienced in delivering medium-scope projects in large organizations that improve workforce performance and business processes. He has a proven track record of delivering effective, technology-savvy solutions in a variety of industries and a unique combination of strengths in both process management and workforce management.

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Managing a project in a stable but complex organization is difficult enough, even if you just consider the workforce issues. When you find yourself in an adverse work environment, then you can experience some serious workforce concerns. Adversity such as we have been seeing in recent years is pushing the limits of what workers can take. Workers in businesses that are growing now are experiencing the same problems as those who are soldiering on through continued low sales. The performance you need cannot be sustained in this type of climate.

If you want to show that you can manage a project in this type of environment, you must be able to read the landscape and react appropriately with a particular set of techniques.

Signals: The Walking Dead in your building! Workers appear mentally and physically exhausted even as projects increase in complexity. Recent good performance suddenly drops off across multiple teams. You hear more conversations about workers recently laid off and how much better it was years ago when there was job security. Some workers have built micro-environments where they have control.
Inappropriate Reaction: Rally the troops with communications asking for more focus and 100 percent or more effort.
The Problem Behind the Problem: Burn out. Workers are taking on more workload as employers are slow to hire new full-time employees. Even if employers…

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