As promised, here is the first in our series of FREE leadership tips, infographics, and webinars designed to help you innovate and avoid management pitfalls and lead through these troubled times and into a brighter future.
LEADING THROUGH CRISIS
Topic #1: Slow Down to Go Fast
Racing enthusiasts understand that sometimes you need to slow down to win the race. While this concept may seem counterintuitive, the reality is if a driver enters a corner too fast it is impossible to hold their speed through the turn. The result of entering a turn too fast is exiting too slow, or worse, you will end up tangled in the guardrail. As your organization enters this COVID-19 corner of unknown length and severity, it is essential that leaders take the time to slow down and ask the question “Why”. As your planning teams tend to focus on the tactical “what” and “how” questions, many times the leader’s role is to slow things down long enough to make sure that your organization is fully prepared the long haul. For example, I would bet that the questions “What will education look like this fall”; and, “How are we going to facilitate more online learning” have taken up the vast majority of your leadership team’s time during the past weeks.
As your organization struggles to find the answers to these tactical questions, don’t forget to ask the question, “why”. Why is _________ the best way to both “survive” this crisis and also meet our LONGTERM VISION? Does this solution factor in our specific culture, strengths, and needs? Can we tweak our implementation to more fully meet the needs of our students and our community both now and in the future?
Sometimes we need to slow decisions down a bit to make sure that we are moving in a direction that will enable us to exit the COVID-19 corner and enter the “new normal” at top speed. If we don’t, our organization will not handle the turn well and will need to slow down to regroup, retool, and/or rebuild when the “new normal” arrives.
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Thank you for all that you do to serve the students and communities to which you have been entrusted.
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Until my next Email - keep looking for ways to lead!
Fred Corn
Chief Executive Officer
Educational Management Solutions
fred@emsaccess.com
(760) 889-9591