Sample Email to Staff Announcing Mental Health Day
Sometimes the best thing you can do during hard times is give your team some time off. This sample email turns a planned meeting/retreat into a mental health day.
Managing Uncertainty
Backup Planning Tool
When it comes to handling unknowns at work, one concrete step every team member can take is to create a backup plan for who will take over key responsibilities if one or more team members is out. Use our template to start.
Communication Planning Worksheet
In a crisis, a big part of every leader’s job is to provide a container for staff and make sense of what’s happening. Use this worksheet to plan out 5 key components for communicating to your team during tough times.
Managing Through Uncertainty: Strategies for Middle Managers
Middle managers play a critical role. It’s also not an easy job. If you’ve ever felt caught in the middle between your manager and your team, here are three strategies to get unstuck.
The 5-Box Scenario Planning Tool (and Sample)
Whether you are managing through uncertainty and change, or anticipating strategic forks in the road, our 5-Box Scenario Planning Tool can help you gather the information you need, think through scenarios, and outline possible action plans.
Sample Language for Performance Evaluations During COVID-19
Struggling with the exact language to use when giving feedback for your 2020 performance evaluations? Check out our samples.
3 Ways to Manage Through Uncertainty: Purpose, Agency, Connection
As managers, we can’t end the pandemic or undo racial and intergenerational trauma, but we can influence how our staff experience this moment. This article offers three ways to build a greater sense of purpose, agency, and connection during times of crisis or uncertainty.
Managing Through Uncertainty: Check-ins Add-on
During moments of uncertainty, check-ins are an opportunity to meet your staff where they’re at so that they can feel seen and supported. Whatever the case may be for your staff, acknowledge what’s happening, hear how your people are doing, and inject purpose and agency by using this add-on in your next check-in agenda.
Five Tips for Goal-Setting in Chaos
When there is a lot going on in the world, your organization, or your personal life (or all three!), goal-setting can feel like an insurmountable task. The good news is that goal-setting doesn’t have to add to the chaos; it can help you move through it.
Building Your Emotional Resilience Muscle
During times of crisis, managers must lean on their emotional resilience muscles. This article shares resources and advice on how to stay emotionally grounded so you can lead effectively.