Stay Calm! Lead On!
Leadership during crisis starts well before an emergency with your core leadership capabilities.
Listen first, act second.
Ensuring decisions are based on the full picture, not panic.
Surround yourself with a calm support system, strong in character with diverse viewpoints.
A wider range of perspectives helps identify blind spots and robust, honest feedback.
Acknowledge reality and your inability to solve it all.
Accept what you can’t control and focus on what you can will reduce unnecessary, and anxious action.
Why it’s Important: A leader's calmness acts as an emotional stabilizer for the entire organization.
Bottom Line: We are imperfect people, working in imperfect systems, leading in a crisis.
We won’t be perfect.
But, we will lead our followers through it and to better days.
Stay Calm! Lead On!