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The Flexible Method: How to Survive and Thrive Through the Next Crisis

Leading Blog

But you can be prepared and follow a method to futureproof your business against the next crisis. It is a way through the next crisis you will face. A crisis is a time for deepening your core values, not abandoning them. A crisis is a time for deepening your core values, not abandoning them. Be honest and transparent.

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Dealing with the Two Fronts of Every Crisis

Leading Blog

E VERY CRISIS places a leader between two fronts: Issue and Fear. Understanding the difference and managing both is key to dealing with a crisis successfully. There is the crisis where the issue is known, there is a procedure for handling it, and success in dealing with it comes down to proper execution of the solution.

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Plot Your Course

Lead Change Blog

When people are on the same page, the fires stop, and the perpetual state of crisis in your organization vanishes. When the obstacles inevitably appear, you’ll have the tools you need to confront reality and make course corrections. The post Plot Your Course appeared first on Lead Change. You can transform your company.

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How to Lead in Times of Crisis

Lead from Within

Most leaders believe they’re prepared to lead through a crisis. But after working with hundreds of executives as a leadership coach, I’ve found that many of them don’t fully understand what crisis leadership entails. Faced with an actual crisis playing out in real time, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by uncertainty.

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How HR Can Promote Mental Health at Work: Actionable Advice to Help Your People Thrive

There’s a mental health crisis in America and HR leaders are on the frontlines. And of course, pandemic-related stressors like school closures aren’t helping any. Mental health in the workplace has always been a top concern among many, but now we’re reaching an inflection point.

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What People Need From Their Leader In A Crisis

Lead from Within

Being a leader always comes with enormous responsibility, but being a leader in crisis adds significance and depth to that responsibility. One successful approach is to focus on the things people look to their leader to provide in a time of crisis. If you normally speak to your people once a month, do it weekly during a crisis.

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How This Crisis Will Change the Future Of Leadership

Lead from Within

Every crisis, large or small, influences the way we lead because it causes us to stop, recalibrate, and innovate. A global crisis of the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic brings wide-ranging changes—changes that not only affect a single organization or industry or nation but that cause us to rebuild the way we think about leadership.

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How HR Can Promote Mental Health at Work (Actionable Advice to Help Your People Thrive)

There’s a mental health crisis in America and HR leaders are on the frontlines. And of course, pandemic-related stressors like school closures aren’t helping any. Mental health in the workplace has always been a top concern among many, but now we’re reaching an inflection point.