COVID has changed our lives upside down in the last six months. What was normal six months ago is not normal post COVID. What is the new normal post COVID? It is evolving as cities are unlocking post lockdown. Employees are returning to workplaces.

The author Jayashree Venkataraman is the Founder and CEO of Appreiz Inc which provides employee engagement solution to maximize performance using social recognition. In her role as CEO, she is responsible for product management, sales and business development. Jayashree comes with an outstanding career spanning two decades in advanced and emerging markets of US, India and China as a technology leader. She has rich experience of delivering engineering and operational excellence with Microsoft, General Electric and start-ups. With her passion for coaching, she has certified herself with Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholder centered Coaching. She is coauthor of the book Project Leadership by Management Concepts . Jayashree has a MBA from Xavier University, Ohio, USA. Jayashree received the Woman Super Achiever Award from World HRD congress and Femina in 2017. As a speaker, she speaks on Employee Engagement, Empathy at the workplace, How to be a Resilient leader, How to lead today’s workforce. As a speaker addressing student, she speaks about how to transform from student to a corporate life

Many jobs have transformed into new roles. HR person is always operating on crisis mode. Sales people are doing video calls than meeting people face to face. Video fatigues are creeping in.

How to thrive with all this change? Thriving with change all around you can be challenging. So if companies invest on providing coaches on demand it can help employees who need some guidance surviving through change. This will help employers retain their best talent.

How can coaching help? Having a conversation with coaches in a space which is non judgmental lets employees explore within to find out what is really important, how to cope up with anxieties and find solutions to their problems. They will guide employees through the journey. They will provide a supportive, confidential space.They will help employees work on realistic goals for work and life.

For organizations to survive, they need effective physical and mental wellbeing of employees. So organizations should use coaching of employees as strategy to thrive though new normal.

The author Jayashree Venkataraman is the Founder and CEO of Appreiz Inc which provides employee engagement solution to maximize performance using social recognition. In her role as CEO, she is responsible for product management, sales and business development. Jayashree comes with an outstanding career spanning two decades in advanced and emerging markets of US, India and China as a technology leader. She has rich experience of delivering engineering and operational excellence with Microsoft, General Electric and start-ups. With her passion for coaching, she has certified herself with Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholder centered Coaching. She is coauthor of the book Project Leadership by Management Concepts . Jayashree has a MBA from Xavier University, Ohio, USA. Jayashree received the Woman Super Achiever Award from World HRD congress and Femina in 2017. As a speaker , she speaks on Employee Engagement, Empathy at workplace, How to be a Resilient leader, How to lead today’s workforce . As a speaker addressing students she speaks about how to transform from student to a corporate life