Steps to reinvigorate your company, people and legacy
Todd Ordal //May 15, 2020//
Steps to reinvigorate your company, people and legacy
Todd Ordal //May 15, 2020//
Pressure may turn carbon into diamonds, but it can also turn a well-functioning executive team into broken souls who no longer have a sense of commitment and joy. Regardless of how many Zoom cocktail hours you’ve held, that slight fluttering sound you hear might be the magic seeping out of your team. In fact, this pandemic has slightly broken most CEOs whom I talk with. Broken leaders and dysfunctional teams must be reinvigorated to achieve success.
How do you do this?
If you have an effective executive team, your current practices, albeit with video relationships, may be enough to hold it together. However, adding a new executive to the team will require a good deal of work to get them onboarded effectively. Trust is easier to build face-to-face. You can do it remotely, but it takes twice as much work.
If you have an executive team that was not terribly well aligned, lacked trust and did not have healthy conflict BC (Before COVID-19), it will get worse without intervention.
This isn’t touchy-feely work. We’re talking about reinvigorating your company, people and legacy.
People will remember you for years based on your response to this situation. Start by getting your mind straight on the path forward and then get your team aligned.