Some situations need saving.
The boring and vague HR CRISIS definition is about how the HR department deals with specific disruptive or unexpected events that threaten to harm an organization.
The truth can come close to this scenario but when we really mean “crisis” we talk about far broader and harder to handle situations of actual disaster.
How does disaster look like?
Strike.
Large scale layoffs.
Massive resignations.
Being sued by your current employees.
Being sued by your former employees. This is even worse, trust us.
Boycotts against top management.
Fights or work-related accidents ending in death.
Abuses of any kind, from overusing power, discrimination to sexual misconduct.
Breach of security in terms of employee’s personal data.
Now these are things you don’t want to go through without the proper partner. And when we say we save the day, we mean it.
Because we value people. For real.
A HR crisis is something that is usually assimilated with a corporate crisis because when it gets hard on HR, it has repercussions on all levels of an organization.
How does an HR crisis might look like? Imagine you are the CEO of a listed company with profits rising from year to year and on the verge of buying a new company.
You have tens of projects to coordinate, twenty people in the team and some superiors abroad to whom you give explanations and monthly reports. You also have heavy deadlines.
One day it happens that all the members of your team are missing. You are alone in front of a desk with millions of things to be handled. What do you do? This is where we save your day. Because we know how.
Culture eats strategy for breakfast, we know that from Peter Drucker. And we most definitely agree.
But this is not by far an argument to not have a solid strategy to what it means to understand who works in your organizations, how, why, under which circumstances, for how much longer would they be willing to stay, which is their level of motivation and happiness and what would make them grow.
We ask those questions in a way that everybody answers in full honesty. Because we are honest ourselves and because we mean business. And nothing surprises us.
