Leaders need to build in time for recovery and rest — both for themselves and their teams — following experiences involving adversity
Bouncing back from adversity and learning to grow as a result can be self-generated, but that can be hugely enhanced by leaders who make meaning out of these experiences, and in a way that opens up space for growth
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Businesses still face a raft of challenges since COVID-19 struck, many of them tied to how we collaborate and communicate — and the sense of meaning or purpose that work holds in our lives.
The Great Resignation highlights the difficulties in retaining talent, as more and more people struggle to understand what they want and how to find satisfaction in work. And in some sectors, huge advances in agility — an unexpected gift of the pandemic — risk being dialed back as some try to return to the standards of what “normal” life used to be.
[This article has been reproduced with permission from University Of Virginia's Darden School Of Business. This piece originally appeared on Darden Ideas to Action.]