Mind Your Career : No BS Career Advice
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
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Leadership During Times of Extreme Fear
In business, it is common to live with fear.
Can I meet my key performance indicators
Will I meet or exceed my sales quotas?
Can we meet our coding goals to deliver the project early so we can look like heroes to our users?
Will marketing allow us/me to be seen as a leader with campaigns that rain revenue?
Will we be able to receive what we need for manufacturing to deliver to our customers?
These are ordinary fears that cause what we think of as “normal stress” that, with time may percolate into burnout.
However, in times of extreme change, such as sudden inflation, international conflict, whether real or threatened or domestic unrest, it is common for staff and leaders alike to experience extreme shocks with cortisol spikes, weight gain, substance abuse and relationship issues at home and work. Everyone asks questions in a desire to seek the certainty that is not available. What can we do when there is no playbook for what to do?
- Meet with your trusted advisers and/or coach regularly. You need people you trust to seek counsel from. Don’t go it alone.
- Focus on your people. You have a responsibility to keep them informed promptly of decisions you are considering. Ask for their advice, too.
- Listen and think. Leaders think they became leaders because of their actions. It is their discernment and their ability to inspire confidence that got them to that seat.
- Notice what others have done and are doing. What worked? What didn’t?
- Decide on a course of action.
- Correct course
This is your moment to take the wheel of the ship and steer during a hurricane. It will be an amazing ride as you and everyone hold on during tumultuous seas and gale-force headwinds.
Everyone will watch the captain. Everyone will yell what you should be doing. That is their fear talking, demanding you do what they tell you.
Give them a reason to follow you. They will.
Ⓒ The Big Game Hunter, Inc., Asheville, NC 2022
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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
People hire Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter to provide No BS Career Advice globally because he makes many things in peoples’ careers
easier. Those things can involve job search, hiring more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues.
He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with over 2800 episodes.
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