21 BDO LLP | LISTENING TO OUR DIRECTORS AND PRINCIPALS
The trust that teams have built up is phenomenal. We must do all we can not to destroy that with the simplest of wrong word, decision, policy or behaviour. “ We were respectful of people’s time before C-19. We were respectful of people’s time during C-19. And we’ll be respectful of people’s time after C-19. “ In C-19, personal dynamics have changed and we’re recalibrating what’s important to us. My child’s school teacher now knows who I am; I’d never normally meet them in a ‘normal’ year as I’d be commuting every day. “ We have proved that we’re capable of making it work – but now we don’t know how to slow the treadmill. “
NEXT STEP FOR DIRECTORS AND PRINCIPALS
To actively and positively engage in the Agile Working framework and guidance when it is released To acknowledge that Day One of Agile Working is just the start; it will be a period of change as we each get used to what it means for individuals, teams, clients and culture To familiarise yourself with material available on Workday learning, for example there are courses to support you with team-management and self-management To sign up, and encourage your team to sign up, to the Succeeding Through Change programme of webinars that are running in July and August. NEXT STEP FOR BDO Allow time for people to digest the Agile Working framework – and to encourage partners, directors and principals to have plenty of conversations with individuals and teams as they work their way through it Consider creating an etiquette guide about how to work in the new world, for example using headphones on Teams calls when in the office (‘I don’t want to hear both sides of a meeting that I’m not even in’) and how to use each Agile Working space in the Hubs.
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