Darren Bourke has coached and supported SME business owners for more than 25 years. Many of the conversations with owners were about managing people. But with the Covid19 driven shift in power to employees, productivity and employee retention strategies, now completely dominate those discussions, and in this episode Darren shares some sage advice for employers feeling the strain from a new world of employment.
@DarrenBourke is a #businesscoach and #mentor to #smebusiness #owners.
He's worked as a chartered accountant with @Deloitte and @pitcherpartners, had a #HR startup and authored @thefourthmoon.
In this episode we talk about the post pandemic shift in power from employers to employees. In past more than 50% of his conversations were about people - internal, sometimes external, sometimes partnership or family business issues. But what's happened is that people issues have probably 10X'd through the pandemic. His work went from consulting, coaching and mentoring through the pandemic to basically welfare and checking in on my owners and helping them hold the fort together. Since coming out of the pandemic Darren (and his clients) have been struck by this incredibly new emerging workplace, the virtual or #hybridworkplace, and the issues that came out of that.
And of course, there was no roadmap for that. In our discussion we talk about;