“You're not going to be a good business leader unless you know how to lead yourself,”. (Brooks & Patterson)
“You're not going to be a good entrepreneur unless you see that your life is your enterprise; your life is your startup.”
As we know that currently, we do not have any treatment or medication for COVID-19 except for taking precautionary measures so why not we should control ourselves and try to explore and gather information which helps us in reducing risk instead of just reading updates and news of tolls and get into fear.
COVID-19 pandemic plays a vital role with its unknown prevailing duration in the volatility and uncertainty of the market opportunity capitalization. Initially, every crisis creates unrest but later it has a recovering effect for the people who have a positive and optimistic attitude which reflects the panic controlling phenonium. But this can only be done if we consider every move as an opportunity instead of keeping fear in mind. There is a very thin line between precaution and fear, sometimes a person even not realize this line and becomes hostile to his fear.
“This is such an impermanent state of affairs that we just have to do as best we can,” (Brooks and Leonard)
So, why we should say that pandemic disturbs the regular activities and why blaming these lockdowns. Why not we should take this as an opportunity and time to explore our self with new learning. Do not cry what you lose and what you cannot do, now this is the time to be optimistic that what you can do with spending time at home with your family and realize what you have learned in this pandemic even it is a dot.
“Now we have an opportunity to do just that. Even learning something small can give you pleasure and a sense of accomplishment.” (Ashley V. Whillans)
During the current days of pandemic people at home may become lazy and taking the lockdown as vacation will result in frustration by doing nothing and just watching, listening, and sharing the figures related to COVID which have no use of it. So why not we should use this time at home in a relaxed environment as an opportunity to learn. The below-mentioned steps we can take and make our time strategically fruitful for the current as well as the period after the pandemic.
Family first:
Usually, in back days without realizing the pros and cons, we overly committed ourselves with other outside to-dos. This affects the family time, and which brought more frustration and unrest even having more resources. This pandemic gives a great opportunity to spent time at home with family and doing our routine works by using online technology. Initially, people hesitate to some extend but gradually when start using these technologies and if you realize now then you will surely find that time you spent on your routine works is more than normal but more relaxed as feeling comparing with pre-pandemic days. This is because of spending quality time with family.
Have a proper day plan
Most of the time we wish to do all in one day and we want to do everything, which is not the realistic approach. We must have a proper day plan in which all to-dos must be listed even the time for walking and chatting and then stick to that schedule. In all, we must have a balanced cognitive load which makes free and relax our bandwidth in mind and as a result, we can pay focus on targeted milestones.
Have desire leadership qualities needed in a pandemic
To smooth running the task we need to manage them effectively and to accomplish this the one must have certain desire leadership qualities especially needed during this pandemic named as.
- Do not get excited but stay calm and be optimistic
- Control yourself from panic and be confident
- Do not be silent it will destruct the matter, so you need to communicate with your subordinates and superiors to avoid ambiguity, rumors, and be clear at all times.
- Work in a team game with proper consultation and collaboration.
- Care yourself not only for you but for a community purpose. Take precautionary measures properly which will save you but also the society.
- We must have compassion for our colleagues that maybe someone has additional critical family issues, so we should give him more margin to work with home and share the load.
- Try to manage cash resources and have some savings which may need to be utilized in some tuff situations
Replace the extraneous activities
Usually in normal days companies plan and offer many social activities to relaxing the employees from a hectic schedule. But these cannot be workable to conduct to social distancing measure, so the companies need to provide some substitute for this line video meeting etc.
Take a time
During the days of the pandemic, people start working online and, they put themselves to work for more hours than normal and the justification is that it is online which is not a good signal. Like in normal days people need a vacation to relax the mind the same here it is highly recommended that we should keep sometimes as free with full intention to get relaxed.
Conclusion
Finally, it is concluded with the above discussion that it is not important that which situation is critical how much, but the most important thing is how you see and perceive the situation. It is you who can covert a fear in opportunity by looking at its positive sides and be optimistic. The core of the above is that never get panic and do not discuss those issues which are not in your control, just concentrate and keep in front what you can do in the given pandemic situation. This will help you in exploring and exercising opportunities which will make ease presently as well as provide a further area for future pathways.
References
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/fighting-the-covid-blues-advice-from-business-research?cid=spmailing-32225857-WK%20Newsletter%2XXX-XX-2020%20(1)-May%2027,%202020
