Challenges You Need To Overcome As A Leader During This Crisis

Hey, how are you? Really quickly.

I’m just going to share with you the work I’ve been doing. I  already got 3 or 4 clients that I’m supporting through the isolation, the cancellations, and the distractions that all this is causing.

I just want to share with you the latest tips that I’ve been giving clients. The reason why I’m sharing this with you is because this is how I’ve been doing most of my training in coaching is working with people, sharing the iPad, dealing with their challenges as they come up.

Survival Thinking

First thing I’ll be talking about is this, we have spent the last little period of time with our brain really focused on fear. Coping survival and what it does to your brain is it puts you in a mindset of rather creating, you just wanted to survive. That’s survival thinking.

I think it’s good to recognise that’s perfectly normal during this time and there are some things we need to do to protect our business.

And those that are gonna get through this also need to recognise that there’s going to be a period of time where we don’t need survival thinking, we’re gonna need creative thinking.

What I’m trying to do with this, with the program I built and the work I’m doing with clients, with teams and leadership teams is to see that there’s just the opportunity to get through this. It’s also creating opportunities, for eventually thriving as a result from all of this once you get through it.

The Challenges

Here are the four challenges that you need to overcome to be able to do that:

1. Physical isolation
   So what this means is that instead of being everyone running to someone and hold up and have a chat you know you’ve gotta find a way through the online meeting to be able to engage, trust and make a difference. 
   So if you get this right instead of feeling isolated, we use this as a time to be engaged and well create engagement. And actually using the tools you can reach more stakeholders than you ever have before, partners, clients, suppliers and this is the opportunity, so use that.
2. Cancellations
   What I mean by this is that stakeholders need to change, existing projects and programs that were often long-term in perspective and thinking are no longer happening. And you’re having to hear pivot in the way that you are doing business at the moment. If you don’t give it off and you won’t survive, but this is where creative thinking is critical. 
   Instead of seeing this as cancellations, we want to look for ways to pivot our business so that we can find pipelines in other areas. 
3. The way you lead
   An example, If you can continue with the command and control and telling people what to do they are under so much pressure at home, that’s not going to work anymore. So instead of measuring input time at desk, we need to start to measure outputs. 
   In this time it is actually an opportunity for you to increase your followership, start with your clients and the people around you rather than for it to decrease.
4. Distractions
   The final big problem for many people is their teams are distracted because of this COVID Talk, meeting is hard to get up to some extent, they are really distracted. There is a massive amount of distractions going on from carrying on the business.
   If you want to move from isolation to engagement, really work on your virtual delivery. In the program that I’m running, the 6-week program, I’m going to work on helping everyone become a month of virtual delivery.
   So they can deliver in a way that’s engaging two-way and using chat and breakout rooms to really engage people. I’m going to help them see how, where, what they are strong at in their business and how they can pivot to create strategic opportunities for themselves.

Summary

Instead of the team being distracted, what we want is actually give the team a focus. What I recommend is for you to be able to rather than just have one day, one-week plans, which is what people are mostly focused on the moment, is to start to have or build at least a 90 day or a quarterly view of where this is going and what the future looks likes, giving people that hope.

The final one is the way you lead, my tip here is that instead of managing inputs, time at desk, watching people entirely go on losing their ranks and just focus on monitoring outputs. 

Many people are actually achieving because they are going to do that while looking after their needs or they are trying to educate their kids and other disruptions around them. 

Leave me a comment or Get in Touch

I’m having this program because I want to help. I want to help leaders and I want to help businesses get through this. It happens over a 6-week period. I’m not going to go through all the details here. But if you want more information about how it works.

Just comment down below more details, and I will send you more details on how it works and hopefully, this helps you see how you can lead your business through this challenge.

Talk to you soon.