Crisis Leadership
Crisis is Opportunity
The Japanese use two characters to describe crisis: one is danger, the other is opportunity. While we can’t avoid some of the collateral damage in tough times, we can find new opportunities if we have the right approach.
Some organizations during the Covid-19 pandemic have managed to shift to hybrid models that include a “work at home” culture with remarkable results. Others haven’t. This period of uncertainty has created for some companies what military strategists call “the fog of war”. Or, in this case, “the fog of pandemic”. This is a time when business owners and leaders are asking them a spectrum of questions. Questions like “how do we survive this” to “is this the time to pivot and create some new possibilities”?
Let us help you deal with the Fog of Pandemic
Whether it’s a company that feels disconnected from working remote to keeping people motivated in the new normal, we help you capitalize on the chaos, call your team to total commitment, and Rewire how you think and perform.
Interested? Set up a discovery call and let us walk you through our 100 Day Battle Plan designed to get you to the other of your difficult times. Those strategies include:
Turning crisis into key decision making
Managing high pressure talks
Refocusing teams
Rewiring a growth mindset
Leveraging outside relations to accelerate reputation and impact
Approach
Emotional awareness and decision making
Methodically frame problems, consider alternatives, collect data, weigh the options, and then decide, cultivating emotional self-awareness may seem like a dispensable exercise—or at least not a critical tool in decision making. The picture emerging from the neuroscience labs is that you ignore your gut at your own peril. Whether you’re negotiating an acquisition, hiring an employee, jockeying for a promotion, granting a loan, trusting a partner—taking any gamble—be aware that your dog brain is busy in increasingly predictable, measurable ways with its own assessment of the situation and often its own agenda. You’d better be paying attention.