Management
Crisis Leadership
Crisis Leadership is the skill of responding to an organization's challenges, as well as preventing them from reoccurring. Crises can include external challenges (pandemics, social strife, macroeconomic events) as well as internal ones (layoffs, company or employee mistakes, etc).
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Managering in Terrible TimesLara covers two areas of crisis Leadership. The first is how to create a supportive and safe environment, which breaks out into: • Formal support • Informal support • Support in 1:1s She then cover how to respond to individual needs, which includes: • Be patient with decreased productivity • If your report is directly affected
Leading after layoffs: How I lead my team after the layoffs at SoundCloudAleksandra tells the story of how she helped a team navigate a layoffs at SoundCloud in 2017. She details both the team events and the 1:1 formats she used to acknowledge everyone's feelings and to rebuild trust and gratitude.
How to Weather the Storm of Tech Layoffs by Managing to ScaleKendra suggests a three-part process to help your team move forward and provides examples of what this process looks like at different levels of scale.