What's your people strategy for 2021?

Posted on 23 November 2020 by Azvir Rampursad

What's your people strategy for 2021?

Remember the days when you shook hands enthusiastically with clients and colleagues just before sitting down together at the meeting table? Sharing pens to scribble down ideas during a brainstorming or team building session?

Remember the days when you shook hands enthusiastically with clients and colleagues just before sitting down together at the meeting table? Sharing pens to scribble down ideas during a brainstorming or team building session?

Social distancing has fundamentally changed the way we engage and interact with each other in our professional lives, just like it has in our personal lives. For organisations to survive and thrive in 2021 they need an appropriate people strategy. So what does this entail? Azvir Rampursad, Corporate Partnerships Manager at the UCT GSB was on Cape Talk to share his thoughts.

What's your people strategy for 2021?

Remember the days when you shook hands enthusiastically with clients and colleagues just before sitting down together at the meeting table? Sharing pens to scribble down ideas during a brainstorming or team building session?

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