One of the bigger surprises in my professional career was the Fine Art Museum in the Mirage, featuring paintings by world class masters like van Gogh. We all received a pretty thorough briefing on the artists and their work, including many of van Gogh’s flowers. While normality may be a comfortably paved road without flowers, the view from the Covid-19 seats is hoping for a new normal with a little of both. As you navigate your company’s return from closures related to this pandemic, remember the rush to find some normalcy should also include some kindness and empathy, and a flexibility to adapt to the changes and challenges that some are finding. After these past several months of fairly sterile distancing, employees need your empathy to help in adapting to whatever that new normal might be; let your actions be like floral window-boxes along the hallways of that return. Be sure to give lots of ‘hellos’ and ‘thank-yous’, remember to listen for signs of stress and need, and over-communicate about goals and performance. We’re all anxious to get to the end of this – it may be more time in coming than we’d like, so cultivate some good programs to help with this transition today.
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 – 1890): Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art
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