Post on 03-Apr-2022
SESSION 5: LEADING DURING CRISIS
LEADING DURING CRISIS
Letting Your Inner Leadership EmergeBy Adam White, Human Potential Expert, Author, Speaker
During Crisis:
Keeping a good attitude, being productive and remaining calm are ways you can model leadership in front of others
Be the role model that refuses to let this virus beat you. Refuse to quit working on your dreams and goals. Choose to give 100 percent everyday
Others are watching our approach and our attitude during crisis right now
Be the Role Model. Be the Change.
3 things to do during a Crisis
Be a Role Model
Be a role model
During Crisis:
Wellness is not just for you.
Wellness has everything to do with how you respond, how you treat others and how you exemplify leadership in every domain of your life
Wellness physically, mentally and spiritually will determine the outcome of your life and results
Are you focused, centered, logical, patient, kind?
Be Whole by Practicing Wellness
3 things to do during a Crisis
Practice Wellness
Practice Wellness
During Crisis:
We are entering the digital economy and online learning era
The online learning industry will grow to over $300 billion by 2025
Develop a new skill, talent, or mindset
Prepare yourself not just for today, but for the future
We may never see our country and economy quite the same after the effects of COVID-19
3 things to do during a Crisis
Develop a New Skill & Mindset
Develop a new skill & mindset
Wellness – Daily Habits & Routine5-Step to Daily Wellness & Progress
1Drink 8-14 ounces of
water
2Workout / Stretch
3Pray / Meditate /
Mindfulness
4Create to-do list with
time stamps
5Work in Blocks to
Focus & Get things
done© AW Empowers, Inc.
Perception & Perspective:
Take a sober, down-to-earth view of the reality of the situation
Don’t slip into denial to cope with hardship, crisis or changes
Prepare yourself to act in ways that enables you to endure and outlast the season of change
Perspective and PerceptionSee things as they are
See things as they areAcceptance of Reality
Perception & Perspective:
When hard times strike, refuse to see yourself as a victim or ask, “why me?”
Construct meaning for yourself and others out of the crisis or change
Use meaning to build bridges from your present to a better future
Those bridges will make the present manageable by removing the sense of overwhelm
Perspective and PerceptionFind meaning
Find MeaningA deep belief held by values
Perception & Perspective:
When crisis comes, be inventive, creative, innovative
Make the most and best of what you do have
Put resources to unfamiliar uses and see possibilities that others miss
The real music is created when you improvise and leave the sheet music
Perspective and PerceptionContinually Improvise
Continually ImproviseModify, Adjust, Adapt
Synonyms: Noun
Decidedness, decision, decisiveness, determination, firmness, granite, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, stick-to-itiveness
Strengthening Your Resolve means…
I am drawing a line in the sand
Strengthening your resolve
Strengthening Your ResolveRe-solve
“Leadership is the ability to influence others through inspiration, not manipulation; to be self-motivated by a vision or purpose, self-disciplined, and governed by values, morals, and principles.” - Adam White, Author, Speaker, Human Potential Expert
Developing Leadership CharacterWhat is leadership?
What is leadership?
Developing Leadership CharacterLeader vs. Manager Mindset
“managers think of the next position”“leaders think of the next generation”
“managers have a short-term view”“leaders have a long-term view”
“a manager thinks about the bottom line”“a leader things about the vision”
“managers don’t want to rock the boat”“leaders turn the boat over and builds a new one”
Leader vs. Manager Mindset
Developing leadership:
Crisis comes to test your leadership character and ability…
What do the following have in common?
▪ DIAMOND▪ LEMONS▪ OLIVES ▪ GRAPES
Crisis places a Demand on your Potential
Developing Leadership CharacterTest of leadership character
Crisis tests Leadership Character
“To educate a man in the mind and not in morals is to educate
a menace to society”
-Theodore Roosevelt
Abuse of power, privilege, and trust; misuse of resources; corruption; and hypocrisy have become associated with leadership today more than at any other time in history
Developing leadership:
Leaders without character
Leaders without character
For some, the problem is that leadership has become a role one plays rather than a life one leads. Contemporary leaders are attempting to divorce their personal lives from their public responsibilities
Developing leadership:
Leaders without character
Leaders without character
1.How has this crisis/change developed your character, mindset, or perspective?
2.How can you use this crisis/change to develop more leadership skill & ability?
FOCUS QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION