These past 18 months have been difficult for everyone: most of my clients were closed and my consulting partners and I weren’t able to see any of them in person. But rather than think about what we couldn’t do, we found ways to do other impactful things. We stayed in touch with our clients and provided coaching and mentoring to keep them engaged and ready for when they would be able to reopen… and helped them to stay focused on what they could, rather than couldn’t, do. We posted 120 short and timely management lessons on Facebook Live about the challenges of managing during and through a crisis (like a pandemic) … and found a broad audience for these messages. We started an online training company called Tiny Classroom Training that will offer soft-skills courses that managers and supervisors can take anywhere, anytime… and are getting ready to launch later this year. And we partnered with academicians and consultants in Europe who were involved in researching Emotional Intelligence as an important skillset needed by managers and supervisors in this post-pandemic era… and conduced an online symposium for leaders eager to learn how to be more effective. During challenging and uncertain times, it’s natural to cautiously wait and see what might happen next; but as a team we knew that 2020 wasn’t the time to do that. Always think about what you can do with what you have today.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, sportsman, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature
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