Life Happens 365 - Are You Managing the Risk?

By Diane Tait Image courtesy Pixabay If you own a business, then you know what a shock to the system the Coronavirus caused a little more than a year ago.   In some cases, businesses were shut down for months on end.   In others, employees were either laid off or forced to work from home to reduce the incidence of contagion.   Any way you look at it, pivoting to keep your business open during the pandemic was a chore of epic proportions.   Now that the worst of the epidemic is over, guess what? Most businesses are going to have to pivot their businesses back to some sense of normal.   That isn’t going to be easy for some as you’ll see in my top-10 tips below.

By Diane Tait Here we are more than five months into the COVID-19 crisis and it doesn’t look as though it’s going to get all that much better in the near future.   For the public this has meant having to wear masks everywhere they go, not to mention keeping a proper social distance from friends and coworkers.   For many businesses it has meant changing the way in which they do business, or even changing the products and services they provide.   To help both consumers and business owners, I decided it was time to take a good hard look at what has been labeled the New Normal to see what kind of changes we all need to embrace if we’re going to thrive instead of merely survive the continuing crisis.