Organizational resilience during COVID-19 is the ability of an entire organization to recover from the pandemic's impact and emerge stronger, whether compared to pre-COVID or post-COVID conditions.

While everyone talks about organizational resilience, its true meaning and how to achieve it remain unclear for many leaders, stakeholders, and decision-makers.

Weatwork.co, in collaboration with RespectVN, a local manpower and organizational development initiative, has developed a framework of four organizational profiles during COVID-19:

1. Fear Zones

2. Learning Zones

3. Resilient Zones

4. Value-aligned Zones

We discovered that these four zones can be represented by at least four models, which can be creatively illustrated in comics for easy recognition and comparison.

This framework is based on in-depth conversations with 200 respondents from 50 for-profit and non-profit organizations across Vietnam. On average, four individuals holding different positions in each organization participated in 2 to 5 engagement sessions with us, including concept clarity interviews, key document reviews, perception gap reviews, and statement verifications.