Leadership Challenge – Put up or shut up
Against a backdrop of hurried change, and a lack of relatable data models for such wholesale disruption, organizations face the challenge of forward planning. But in this planning cycle, business leaders are presented with one of the biggest, and perhaps most interesting, questions: How do we best prepare their companies for the unexpected? HOW YOUR BUSINESS CAN STAY UNITED WHILE BEING APART DURING COVID-19 is the talk of the town in the CXO community
With most of the workforce kept physically apart, the need for companies to stay united with their people and customers has never been greater. They have to be transparent in their communications with employees, partners and customers alike — even when it is difficult.
United with customer
- How Leader’s Train the sales to use the online tools to be content with customers and understand their fast evolving situation and ever changing business needs with No face to face meeting possible.
- How to adhere to the commitment and promises made and going beyond with the resources available.
- How the client coping with the operation changes and acquiring up-to-date information and sharing that knowledge and your experience with your customers and clients.
- How additional insight would create more opportunities to discuss new business opportunities.
- With companies downsizing some operations and growing other areas areas of business could help in opportunity.
United with Team
- Maintain professionalism across your distributed workforce.
- Building trust in the entire hierarchy from Management to Manager to staff
- Maintain a similar schedule and work ethic working from home as they would work in the office
- Digitalization the new ways of work accelerate
United for the future
- Leaders and managers need to communicate regularly with their teams
- Checking Employees moral, as working remote without a mentor could be challenging
- Making sure our customer are safe and how they are managing and have the ability to survive a downturn economy
- Loyalty of people and customer would depend on who they were managed during such times of uncertainty traditional leaders would be challenge by new breed of agile leadership
- This is a time like we’ve never experienced before. Unique circumstances require unique solutions. As Boyen Haddin said for Leader’s it is “Put Up or Shut Up” And together we can emerge a stronger, more resilient, more effective and a more servant business community.
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