Return to the new normal: Leader’s top of mind
Axialent recently hosted a live debate, Return to the new normal: Leader’s top of mind, where our two experts explored and debated global organizations’ leaders’ top of mind topics and how to prepare for the “new normal”. The live webinar covered three pressing questions: 1) What do you think the “new normal” is going to look like? 2) What challenges and opportunities do you see now emerging from this crisis? and 3) What is the implication of this new normal at a leader’s personal level?
Survivor Syndrome: Building Bridges
If “meeting people where they are” makes us feel loved and valued and can help us thrive, why do we often experience disconnection or misunderstandings instead? And how can we increase our connection to build bridges and “meet people where they are?”
Survivor Syndrome: Connecting Through Crisis
Being able to “put things on the table” and address difficult topics in an open, caring and compassionate way is a powerful way to increase connection among your employees.
Síndrome del Superviviente: Conectándonos a través de las Crisis
Ser capaces de “poner las cosas sobre la mesa” y conversar sobre temas difíciles abiertamente, con cuidado y compasivamente es una manera poderosa de poder lograr una mayor conexión entre los empleados.
Never let a good crisis go to waste: Empathy and gratitude as a character-building workout
Whatever the lenses we choose to practice gratitude and empathy, they can be helpful to get some understanding of what others are living during this crisis. Realizing that can help put things in perspective – and it’s one of many ways in which we can individually do our work to avoid letting this crisis go to waste.
Never let a good crisis go to waste: Who do you want to become?
One of the most tangible aspects of a crisis like the one we are living is the material damage it causes: sickness, death, lost jobs, etc. There is, however, a less tangible but also very important dimension: the net balance a crisis has on our character as individuals, and the overall impact on society as a whole stemming from this.
Survivor Syndrome: Overcoming Organizational Trauma in Times of Crisis
We invite you to read the following article to raise awareness and build effective actions to deal with people’s struggles now. Everyone wants to be at their best, but often unconscious emotional stress gets in the way. We want to help everyone understand some of the hidden and unspoken dynamics we might be facing today and what is it that you can do to dissolve this.
Never let a good crisis go to waste: Viktor Frankl’s lessons
A couple of years ago, I joined a team facilitating an executive development session at a US company. During that meeting, a defense contractor executive shared an anecdote of a big crisis they had faced, and he said “Never let a good crisis go to waste”. That phrase stuck with me and during the last […]
El momento de la verdad
Este no es un artículo con la intención de juzgar lo que es “bueno” o “malo”, correcto o incorrecto. Escribo estas palabras para desafiarnos a nosotros mismos y a las personas que nos rodean, incluso nuestros equipos y organización, a cómo estamos respondiendo a la situación de pandemia actual.
The Moment of Truth
This is not an article written with the intention to judge what is good or bad, right or wrong. I am writing this to challenge us all on how we and the people around us, even our team and organization, are responding to the current situation. I think now is the time to move away from practical advice and take this to a deeper level of individual reflection and collective consciousness.