VIDEO OF THE MONTH: "This Poem will Change Your Life"
World Poetry Slam Champion, Rudy Francisco delivers a powerful performance on embracing the day even when it's not going your way. His passionate plea to live life to the fullest will make you think twice about complaining.
ARTICLE OF THE MONTH: "Crisis Leadership In Real Time: 8 Pandemic Best Practices" by Davia Temin
So, it’s here. We now have a pandemic crisis in front of us that is disrupting global markets, businesses, and every sector of our lives, and will, we are promised, do much more damage over an indeterminate amount of time. Life, as we have known it, is changing.
So much is not in our control, it is mind-boggling to try to figure out what is and what is not open to our agency. Yet a fundamental rule of crisis management is to exercise as much control as possible over events that unfold — using every tool available to us to bring about a positive outcome.
In fact, how we respond to the COVID-19 crisis says more about who we are, and how we lead, than it does about the crisis itself.
So, it’s probably a good time to begin recasting more generic crisis management rules into a specific set of rules for our current challenge. Now that the current Coronavirus crisis is officially a pandemic, we surely need to develop ever more advanced thinking on how to deal with it.
Following is a new set of 8 pandemic "best practices" for your consideration.
"Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Other Economic Leaders" by Michael Kinsely -Book Reviewed by TLP Cohort #6 Member
This book recognizes some of the most successful fortune 500 business people in the world. With as much financial success as they have had, they believe that their power and success should be used for the greater good. These titans of industry believe that having the ability and power that their success has provided them with, should be used to lead and improve systems that everyone can benefit from.
I would recommend this book if you are interested in philanthropy.
"Survival Guide to Care for Staff During the Coronavirus Pandemic" by H.V. MacArthur
Leaders and their HR teams have a lot to manage during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are the efforts everyone needs to take to prevent the spread of the illness. This
requires coordinating healthy business operations if you have essential employees reporting to work or once employees start returning to the job. There is also the challenge of balancing an employee’s privacy with the staff’s right to know when an employee tests positive for the virus. And finally, the importance of interim morale efforts that help people navigate these volatile and unprecedented times.
Click here for some tips to consider for each scenario.
Dates Set for TLP Cohort #6 Final Project Presentations
On September 22, 2020 and October 16, 2020, the members of the TLP Cohort #6 will be giving their final project presentations.
TLP alumni are invited to join the group for any or all of the presentations. Mary McCarthy will be finalizing the schedule; please let her know if you are interested in attending, and she will share with you. We welcome your participation in supporting your fellow TLP colleagues.
"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
2020 Training Opportunities
NOW AVAILABLE
We will continue to update the schedule with dates and locations, so check in with us regularly.
