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 change, 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 everything is still in the planning stages. Besides regularl...