Four Necessary Conversations for Leaders Right Now
If you are wondering how on earth we are going to 'get back to normal', you're not alone. There’s no roadmap on how to best lead and work together through a pandemic. Leaders and managers need to pave the way and respond to what is needed.
To contribute to this, senior consultant Claudia Butler has designed a framework that summarises and encourages the critical conversation that leaders need to initiate right now. These conversations are outlined below.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, or would like to partner with Frameworks for Change to support these necessary conversations.
We can provide assistance by offering each of the following topics as individual workshops, or as a program for your organisation.
Overview
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Leading in unity to achieve results
Crises such as COVID-19 force leaders to lead together. Leadership teams who lead well together are more effective in delivering results. But, this is easier said than done. It requires work.
Take the time to talk about your unique dynamics, insights into self and others including providing constructive feedback.
· Showing vulnerable trust.
· Mining for the gold in that conflict.
· Strategically playing to people’s strengths.
Modelling leadership excellence now and into the future
Leading through the COVID-19 disruption taught us a lot and sparked a lot of conversations about what great leaderships looks like. New leadership experiences, qualities and distinctions have emerged around and within us.
Harvest the emerging pearls of wisdom about leadership and define the leadership legacy that you want to leave behind.
· Leading self.
· Leading others.
· Leading organisations.
Defining what your organisation looks like post COVID-19
Leaders had to respond to the COVID-19 crisis tactically. Now it’s time to change gear again and respond to the crisis strategically. COVID-19 has given us a unique opportunity to re-think our way of being and doing in organisations.
Initiate and engage people in strategic conversations that shape the future of your organisation.
· Newly gained perspectives and (re)inventions.
· Systemic issues that have emerged and need addressing.
· What to treasure and what to innovate.
Creating inner clarity to project clarity outward
COVID-19 changed feelings, perceptions, thinking, wants and actions of self and others. Although we are all in this together, our experiences are vast and varied. Inner clarity is a prerequisite to providing external clarity.
Stop, reflect (together) and find your place as human being and leader for now.
· What has fallen out of balance and what has emerged for you?
· What’s your place and direction?
· What are your meaning-making strategies for moving forward?
