So, as we finally seem to be emerging from the Covid crisis, how has your leadership fared? Are you now a better or worse leader than those heady days pre-Lockdown? Ok, a fairly blunt and perhaps uncomfortable question, but as Jim Collins (Good To Great) said, we need to āconfront the brutal factsā from time to time. And now seems as good a time as any.
Pat Lencioni – he of the The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, a model we know and love well at The Colour Works, provided an opportunity early on into Lockdown (1) to do just that. Running a Webinar to explore the leadership challenges being posed by Covid, he proposed that as leaders we would emerge stronger or weaker. Not the same. Covid would make such demands on our leadership abilities that the status quo could not prevail. Challenging stuff.