Tag: team work

In event of crisis

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If your company wants to write a public note about the current situation in Ukraine – or any other crisis for what matters -, make sure that falls into one of those two categories.

  • You are letting your audience know about something deeply impactful you are doing, or plan to do, that could change the situation for the better for a good portion of the people involved.
  • You are directing the attention of your audience towards someone or some other organisations that can actually do something deeply impactful and might need additional support.

And always remember, even at a time like this, silence is an option.

Stay strong.

The best fit

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The bravery and determination we use when advising others should always be kept in check by the fact that when we are in a similar situation we tend to act much more cautiously and pragmatically.

A great advisor is one that helps you walk through the different options and choose the one that is the best fit for yourself.

Things in perspective

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If today you have spent more time checking news sites and social media rather than doing your work, that’s ok. If you have been distracted, if you have struggled to focus, if you now feel you have achieved nothing, that’s ok. If the last minute meeting felt like just too much to take, that’s ok.

If your boss or somebody else has not extended their full support, empathy, and understanding, that is not ok.

Take your time. Breathe.

We’ve got this.

When sharing is the opposite of caring

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You get out of a three-hour meeting where you have discussed important topics for the future of your team, your department, your company.

The first instinct is to share the bits and pieces of information you have collected with your peers – impressions, thoughts, gossips, directions, changes, tasks. If you are leader, you’d probably call right away an extraordinary meeting with people reporting into you, just to make sure that everybody can share in your own frustration, excitement, or whatever it is that you are feeling.

It would probably be a lot better, though, if you would take a moment to actually think about what just happened. Go for a walk. Call it a day. Take a piece of paper and write down what you have heard. Sleep on it. Go on for one or two days before talking to anybody that was not in that meeting about what comes next.

Your confusion does not have to be other people’s confusion.

Sure, sharing is fantastic and it makes you feel a little less lonely. But when you do not yet have a clear idea of what you should share, is it really worth it?

Sequence

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Try not to have two things requiring your immediate attention at the same time.

Always choose one. Keep it front and centre as you dedicate your full energy to it. Push the other (or the others) to the background, silencing its pressing requests. Once you have completed a meaningful part of what you have selected first, only then move your full attention to what is next. Repeat.

Sometimes you are so busy that things keep taking turns in your field of attention. You complete a task, move on to a second item, go back to the first to continue to the next milestone, begin with a third to take it to completion, switch to the second to progress it some more, and so on. If feels like you are dancing.

That’s the incredible feeling of working in sequence.