Leadership Questions and Coaching Support During Uncertain Times

How are you surviving in this strangest-of-times? We are listening deeply to what our clients are experiencing. Here is what we are hearing:

  • Getting set up: How do we logistically move to a primarily virtual work environment for the foreseeable future? There is a recognition that this is NOT a three-week thing, it’s most likely at least a three-month thing.
  • Protecting our families: How do we keep ourselves and our families safe? How do we work it out together to be in the same household (to be productive and not get on each other’s nerves)?
  • Relieving anxiety: How do we keep calm in the face of such uncertainty? What can we control in the face of complete overwhelm? How do we deal with isolation—it’s already setting in—including how to show compassion for our teammates and for someone who may be sick?
  • Redesign: How do we start to reprioritize, reengineer, reorganize, rethink, and/or re-message our products, services, business models, marketing needs, talent needs? In other words, how do we redesign anything big or small, to get ahead of the curve? There is a sense we should redesign now.

Resources to Support You

1-1 Executive Leadership Coaching

  • We can help you set up communication practices with your directs that help things run more smoothly.
  • We can help you redesign your work environments and your business.
  • We can work with you on video over a week, 3 months, or 6 months; we will flex with you.

Learn more about leadership coaching.

Group Learning on Videoconferencing (VC)

Morale boosters that can prevent isolation and relieve anxiety:

  • Quick one-hour VC booster: Happy to work with you and your managers on a variety of topics: OVER-communicate effectively, establish boundaries for WFH, best practices to deal with family obligations and sick team members.
  • 2-hour VC boosters: Happy to facilitate mini-workshops for you that will build your team up and bring them together.
    • StrengthsFinder: We love the positivity of the StrengthsFinder tool, and in 2 hours, your team can learn to leverage each other to get more done, get to know each other better, and support each other.
    • In-the-Moment Coaching:  How do you and your directs continue to give regular feedback and problem-solve when you’re not seeing each other in the hallway? In 2 hours, learn how you can coach on-the-spot and teach others to do that as well.
    • Influence + Impact in the NEW NORMAL: Given our collective new reality, how do you influence others to take into account that: 1) people are in different stages of overwhelm, which calls for strong empathy skills, and 2) your job now may be more about helping your colleagues or customers rethink priorities and generate completely new ideas.

Strategy and Redesign:

  • Have you already planned a Strategy Offsite? Or need to plan one to re-think your 2020 plans? Happy to help you facilitate this on Zoom.
  • Want to get ahead of the curve on redesigning organizational priorities, business practices, or products?
  • We can support you using a Design Thinking approach and successfully facilitate group brainstorming sessions on Zoom. You can, in turn, use these techniques with your customers.

Need content to send to your colleagues?

  • Visit our blog for the latest posts on Leading in the New Normal
  • Join WiseTalk: A free one-hour monthly teleconference with leadership experts; our theme for 2021 is “Corporate Culture-Navigating the New Normal”
  • Follow us on Twitter: @MariposaLeader @SueBethanis

For over 25 years, Mariposa has been offering leadership coaching to tech leaders in both 1-1 and group formats virtually and in person.

Happy to offer you VC meetings now.

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