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Wael El Helou – Leadership in the Times of Crisis

 

Leadership in the Times of Crisis

An article by Wael El Helou

In a region that has been hit by adverse economic and market conditions for a few years now, crisis has become the new normal. Political turbulence, instability, wars, sanctions, corruption, and the list goes on and on making Maslow’s pyramid of needs go nuts over what to service first and what priorities look like, today.

On the individual, ‘person’ level, the reflection of those is even more severe with a duality of roles that stretches the most conditioned amongst us beyond their farthest comfort zone. Leaders, subject to personal, family, financial, life and corporate struggles, are there with an expectation to lead forward. Stress, helplessness, low morale, disengagement, ambiguity to the extent of blindness are among the few conditions the current environment has to offer.

Within all this, comes the pandemic causing a life threat, closing borders, locking social units in, and without any prior warning, disrupting most companies and their teams and putting them in an immediate survival state. They found themselves overnight playing a new game with new rules that almost no one is familiar with, let alone, savvy about.

Now, lead!

In this article, we will attempt to lay down 3 pillars of leadership under the current crisis, and to offer tools that can service plausible outcomes for each. These pillars are founded on the concepts of the paradox theory, and the tools shared aim at exploring ways to balance our approaches to self-leadership, business, and people in business.

Leadership Tools for Times of Crisis – Leading Self

 

When we talk about leadership, we talk about people. The equation is quite simple: no people who volunteer to follow, no leadership. And among the hundreds of companies that I trained, and the leaders that I interacted with, the most common traits among the inspiring ones were consciousness and intentionality.

Being conscious in this context is knowing and putting effort to understand what you and those around you are thinking and feeling and therefore doing; and being intentional is acting on purpose.

The first step to achieve that is being aware of yourself.

In today’s crisis, the part of our life that was naturally running on autopilot is now on manual control and the effort required to balance all the emerging priorities has overnight become monumental.

When you research how people are dealing with this sudden change of routine, you see initial tendencies to fall out of pace and out of balance and to spend the available time inadequately on these competing priorities, which contributes to overwhelm and adds to the rest of the psychological pressures we’re all falling under.

This Interactive Webinar will use 2 coaching tools to help you determine your top priorities and strike a balance among them. What we will achieve as a result of it is the first step in the alignment of the continuum of leadership from self, to business, and then to people in business.

Download your copy of the full article “Leadership in the Times of Crisis” here

(Register for the Interactive Webinar Series on “Leadership Tools for Times of Crisis” by filling the registration form on the top right corner)

 

 

Leadership Tools for Times of Crisis – Leading the Business

 

In the middle of today’s turmoil caused by the multilayer crisis we are living, companies are facing one major paradox: How to, simultaneously, survive and build fitness, resilience and stamina as fast as dictated by the crisis, and reinvent the business in such a way for it to fit the world of tomorrow that is under construction with a debatable shape, as fast as dictated by the time the market will take to normalize. In simpler words, how to balance committing and acting short term and committing and acting medium term at the same time.

This second Interactive Webinar of the Leadership Tools for Times of Crisis series, will make use of some of the world’s best creative processes to tackle one of your tough challenges and get you, at the end of the hour, a set of possible solutions for it.

As a result, and with you learning the process, we will achieve the second step in the alignment of the continuum of leadership from self, to business, and then to people in business.

Download your copy of the full article “Leadership in the Times of Crisis” here

(Register for the Free Interactive Webinar Series on “Leadership Tools for Times of Crisis” by filling the registration form on the top right corner)

 

Leadership Tools for Times of Crisis – Leading the People in Business

 

People. People. People.

That’s actually the first pillar of leadership even if we discuss it third.

The key role for the leadership of people in this circumstance, is to create a team with players who are individually and collectively fit, resilient, engaged and somehow simultaneously connected and immune to what is storming on the outside. Those team objectives are built on three cornerstones: mindset, relationship system intelligence and agility.

To establish that, a leader must strike a balance between leading from the front and leading from the back.

This third Interactive Webinar of the Leadership Tools for Times of Crisis series, will introduce you to Fierce Conversation’s Team Conversation, a collaboration tool that will help you break silos, enable teams, create agility and take the best possible decisions for your organization.

As a result, we will achieve the third step in the alignment of the continuum of leadership from self, to business, and then to people in business.

Download your copy of the full article “Leadership in the Times of Crisis” here

(Register for the Interactive Webinar Series on “Leadership Tools for the Times of Crisis” by filling the registration form on the top right corner)

 

Test new design

Strategy is about choices and decisions.

It’s first about the choice of battles to fight. And then about the choice of options to adopt, in the aim of winning each one of those battles.Hence, our paradoxical approach to strategy which follows a systematic perspective at one end, and allows, at the same time, creativity to seek potential and alternatives.

It is a science that we are glad to share with others.

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