Eyal Gutentag

  Management Expert Eyal Gutentag on Transitioning to the New Normal As the first faint signs of an end to COVID appear on the horizon-rising vaccination levels, businesses opening their doors, schools returning to in-person learning-it’s tempting for managers to dream again of a return to normal. According to growth and performance leader Eyal Gutentag , there’s just one problem: “normal” isn’t going to happen anytime soon. With a long history of developing highly succ e ssful management teams for industry-leading companies like the NFL, Eyal has experienced all kinds of management challenges over the past few decades. He knows “normal” inside and out, but he cautions: “Forget the idea that, once COVID ends, you can return to business as usual. If COVID taught us anything, it taught us that we need a new normal going forward.” This new business normal, he tells his managers, will involve more than just another run-of-the-mill type of employee training, updated internal policies or...

  Keys to Effective Leadership in Times of Crisis Even in the midst of the COVID pandemic, your business leadership team should have already been looking at the lessons you learned to inform your decisions about your leadership during the transition away from a pandemic mindset and to plan for any future crisis. While good leadership should be focusing on these actions all the time, during times of transition and crisis the following keys will keep your business running smoothly despite the turmoil. Be Available During times of rapid chan g e, you may feel that your plate is already full in handling clients and getting your employees organized, but as business performance consultant  Eyal Gutentag  notes, it’s times like these that leadership through communication becomes paramount. Especially if people are working at scattered locations, give regular updates through email and your intracompany channels. Let people know what’s going on, even if what’s going on is that eve...

  Eyal Gutentag and family A year ago, who would have guessed we’d have the life-changing experiences that so recently unfolded?  COVID 19  has impacted every element of society, from business to personal, in ways we could never have anticipated. In the process, we’ve learned a lot. First, the importance of being an agile company and being able to quickly adapt to changing markets and financial environments was once again reaffirmed. Training employees to be ready for change and to respond positively paid off handsomely. Many companies experienced only slight dips in efficiency if any at all. Second, we were reminded once again that you should never underestimate your staff. If you hired well, you got some of your investment back as the company switched (in many cases) to a remote workforce. Personally, I was always a bit negative about remote workers. Could they be as productive working from home as they were in the office? How could the company function when most o...

  Looking back on the start of the lockdowns, this year has been very different, to say the least. - Eyal Gutentag

  Eyal Gutentag on Lessons Learned: Team Leadership After COVID The onset of the  COVID 19 pandemic in early 2020  was a tragedy that caused chaos throughout the world. Thousands lost their lives. Businesses, schools and churches were shut down. Hardly a person on the globe was not affected by it. But as  vaccines now roll out  and as statistics slowly tumble back to normal, yet another tragedy potentially looms: the tragedy of not learning any lessons from what happened. This is especially true for bu s iness leaders. After one of the most disruptive years in recent memory, what lessons have business leaders learned-or should they have learned-on the heels of this catastrophic event? We decided to ask growth and performance leader  Eyal Gutentag , recognized throughout the business world for his expertise in developing powerful managerial teams in some of the nation’s best-known companies. Eyal has been instrumental in developing the smoothly-running manag...

  Eyal Gutentag  Hiring in 2020 Revisited Just over a year ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we published an article listing  5 critical qualities to look for in a great new employee . Those qualities included: · Creativity · Dependability · Autonomy · Attention to Detail · Character We received positive responses from our audiences affirming that these were indeed the qualities they needed to see in an early 2020 candidate. When a client was fortunate enough to find a candidate with all of these qualities, we recommended they hire him/her immediately. But then COVID came along and in many instances turned everything upside down. Wo r kplaces across the nation were in disarray: layoffs disrupted long-standing teams, remote working arrangements separated people physically (and emotionally), temporary shutdowns and even company closings hit everyone hard. So what happened to our top 5 qualities list? Will it change in post-COVID 2021? The good news is…the list remains ...