Leading post-COVID? How disruptions can help you re-set and create your dream (hybrid) team
Mistakes are inevitable as you develop into a better leader.
It’s all part of learning, unfortunately it can have a detrimental effect on your leadership brand.
But it doesn’t have to be that way - every disruption is an opportunity to reinvent yourself, maintain your leadership brand and create the team you’ve always wanted.
And there’s been no greater disruption than the events of the past 18 months to 2 years.
This short video describes a time I had to reset my leadership and, and how you can use change to recreate both yourself, and your team.
Watch the video or read the transcript below.
Transcript:
Leaders are made not born, and the great challenge of that is you need to lead as you're learning to lead. It's a bit like building the plane while you're learning to fly it.
And when that happens, things will go wrong inevitably, somewhere along the way.
You'll hold someone accountable when you shouldn't or not hold them accountable when you should. You'll micromanage, over-manage someone or under-manage somebody else.
You'll get the tone wrong. And when that happens, it tends to stick with you a little bit and it's a little bit hard to reset your reputation both for yourself and with the team.
Many years ago, as I was learning to lead, I had a team member who went and did something I specifically had asked them not to do.
They took something to the executive which we weren't ready to take, - it was a little bit embarrassing.
So, knowing what I did about leadership, praise in public, criticism in private, I booked a room and had a chat to them in the room - or what I thought was a chat about what had happened.
Now, that went pretty badly against me. What I hadn't counted on was my tone. I was still angry about what had happened.
They didn't like my tone, reported me up to the executive and it was held against me as Cris is someone who doesn't manage his emotions very well or is not able to be very calm and rational.
Of course, I did get over that eventually, but the way that I did recover my reputation was by going and working somewhere else. I had to shift the context to reset.
The great things about ... the great benefits of things like covid last year - and there weren't a lot - but one of the great things about it is a chance to reset coming back to the workplace, being in lockdowns - all those changes are a chance to reset, to become the leader you want to be, to keep the great stuff that you were good at, and to leave behind the other stuff.
But also to reset some of your team norms.
This program is about both doing that reset, but also how do you manage hybrid staff - people that you can't see directly.
My name's Cris Popp - I'm very much looking forward to meeting you in the webinars to talk more about how you can keep your strengths, reset, and also how you can manage hybrid and remote staff.
See you soon.
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