Common sense leadership practices in times of crisis:
- Take care of yourself.
- Take care of your team.
- Trust your values.
- Trust your strengths.
- Ask for help.
- Learn.
- Share your learning.
Today is a good day to turn each of these into a question and to assess how you’re doing:
- How have I taken care of myself today?
- How have I taken care of the team?
- How have I lived from my values?
- How have I employed my strengths?
- Who did I ask for help?
- What did I learn?
- How did I share my learning ?
If this seems like a lot of unnecessary “navel gazing” under the circumstances, please consider this: how you lead right now is the model for how everyone around you will behave. It is the model for how you and your team will respond to this crisis and the one that comes next.
Surely, you can spare a few minutes of reflection to help you stay on a path that is worthy of your well-being and that of the people you are privileged to lead.
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