Gary Burnison, the CEO of recruiting and leadership development firm Korn-Ferry writes a weekly email every week which I subscribe to. Not surprisingly, a lot of his notes the past several months have focused on leading during the pandemic. This past week, Gary offered a pointed metaphor to describe where he thinks we collectively are in the process.
He wrote that we’re not in a sprint or even a marathon to the next normal; we’re in an IronMan® Triathlon and we’re about halfway through the opening two mile open water swim. If Burnison is right, we still have a 26.2 mile marathon and a 112-mile bike ride to go after we get out of the water.
Even if we get to skip the bike ride, it’s increasingly clear that we have a long way to go on this. So, what do you do as a leader to keep yourself and your people focused and engaged on the results that are most important for all of you to achieve? I’ve been talking with a lot of coaching and leadership development program clients about that lately and have landed on a question that has been helpful to everyone I’ve asked it of – “How do you want your team to feel?”
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