It’s clear that the CoVid 19 challenge the world is still facing has required new levels of leadership and teaming skills. People and organizations have been called to step up their game in order to lead through this crisis and beyond.
Listen to Dean interview Laura on the importance of emotional intelligence, agility, and intuition to lead through change and disruption. As they discuss, we all have a natural inclination for how we handle new situations and the conflicts that may arise. How easily do you adapt to new situations, not just at work, but in your community and society? Your level of agility impacts your relationships with coworkers and colleagues, friends and family members, and the world at large. We have two resources to help you and your coworkers and teams to become... |
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It goes without saying that the world has changed dramatically for all of us in these last 5 to 6 months. Many of the well-laid plans we had in place for 2020 were disrupted if not downright demolished.
We have all had to become more resilient, more agile and flexible, and certainly more digital than ever before. Now that we have been into this crisis for more than a few months, it is apparent that this situation will be a marathon and not a sprint.
In the short-term, many organizations had to put aside their plans to grow and develop their people to deal with the urgent needs of the moment due to the global pandemic. However, not preparing your people to deal effectively with the new world of work is not sustainable. This email outlines just a few of the new, enhanced capabilities we...
Read MoreRebooting Employee Morale and Productivity Series
The events of recent months have tested the leadership mettle and the agility of people in organizations in ways we’ve not seen before. For years we have been talking about a VUCA world in which the business environment is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous and now we have that on steroids. The more disrupted our “normal” lives become, the more critical a truly agile workforce is to success.
The opportunity for leaders in organizations now is to equip themselves and their people with the tools, training, and coaching to enable people to be self-directed, flexible, and resilient. Agile takes on a whole new meaning today...
In this uncertain and challenging time, many people want to know how best to:
- manage their own emotions,
- support the people they lead and/or influence, and
- somehow remain productive and focused despite these unprecedented circumstances.
Suggestions for Managing Yourself During a Crisis
At this point, I’m sure you’ve received enough advice. You don’t need to be told to self-quarantine and keep your social distance or to wash your hands and stop feeling fear. All of these things are wise to do of course, but I thought I would summarize some helpful suggestions in a series of posts for Thriving Through Crisis: Managing Yourself, Managing Others, and Managing Your Business and Productivity.
In all of the leadership training and coaching my team and I offer, we take a “Whole-Person” ...
Read MoreLet’s face it, most leaders are struggling with the volatile, uncertain, chaotic, and ambiguous world of work today. As a result of this turbulence, every company, leader, and employee needs to be on the lookout for an edge that will allow them to manage the chaos and succeed despite it.
That edge for leaders and teams is emotional intelligence. “Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict,” according to Dan Siegel, mindfulness and EQ expert. Daniel Goleman, author of many leading-edges resources on emotional intelligence has stated that “EQ is 7 or more times more important than IQ for leadership success.”
The Eve...
Read MoreBut while poor Hamlet was waxing poetic over the all of the dreadful tragedy that Shakespeare thrust upon him, drama in the workplace is generally a reaction to one core issue: conflict. As we’ve mentioned, conflict is an uncomfortable but unavoidable part of any organization...
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