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Motivating Your Team in a Time of Overwhelm and Uncertainty
How to Care for, Coach, be Consistent with and Celebrate your team
At the best of times, being a leader can be challenging and more so during Covid, a massive disrupter to the workplace. Compared to the internet and the advent of personal computers, which were gradual changes in my working life, Covid has been an avalanche of change in less than a year.
People are stressed and overwhelmed all over the world, and mental health has taken a hit.
This report comes on the back of mounting evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic is having monumental effects on the mental health and wellbeing of populations worldwide. With seemingly low capacity to respond, it is unclear how the world will deal with this looming mental health crisis. — The intersection of Covid-19 and mental health, The Lancet Oct 8th 2020
Jobs have disappeared, and many workplaces have undergone at least one restructure. Both myself and my partner were made redundant this year following Covid related cost-cutting. My daughter lost her part-time job in a café and has had to do her university work remotely.
Most of my furniture is in storage as redundancies hit us days before putting my house on the market. We also became an instant blended…
