Leading with Hope & Resilience
May 6, 2020 · by Alvarez Porter Group · Filed Under Blogposts on Leading Staff, Choices, Featured · Leave a Comment
In this crisis . . .
Where trauma and injustice are both deeply personal and mission critical, we need leaders who are calm, clear, equitable, and compassionate.
- Take care of your emotional and physical well-being to be able to build trust and motivate from a place of centered calm.
- Assess the impacts of the crisis and then take adaptive steps to delegate and provide direction that is clear.
- Be inclusive and data-driven in your decision-making to ensure strategies and approaches that are equitable.
- Listen deeply, empathize, and connect with others, to be consistently compassionate.
Essential leadership behaviors in a crisis
- Safeguard resilience, your own and others’, with practices that center wellness, gratitude, and joy.
- Acknowledge uncertainty and rapidly changing conditions & communicate frequently.
- Innovate boldly to adapt to change, then test and check results to learn and build on what actually works.
- Realign people and resources equitably to invest in emerging strategies and clear the path to action.
- Put relationships before tasks, [R before T], connect first on a personal level & foster a culture of kindness and mutual concern.
- Rely on the character and strength of your people to do the best they can – even if that is less than you and they are used to – adjust expectations.
- Manage outcomes not hours, and take advantage of the virtual environment, rather than seeking to recreate the office.
- Give grace and drop judgment of yourself and others, accept that people are managing high levels of stress, and assume positive intent.
- Share hope for the future with optimism coming from persistence, solidarity, vision, and faith.
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