The Covid crisis has given us time to sit back and introspect where we earthlings went wrong ..
It seems in the next one month or so most of the organisations will start functioning in full scale even though the severity of the crisis may not abate till December or even next June.
But how do we recalibrate our work life and personal life and document the hard lessons we have learnt during this crisis. It is equally important to bounce back from this crisis as to learn from it the hard lessons too.
More often than not, asking the right questions is more important than knowing the answers to these questions.
What are the most important questions we can ask ourselves and our teams as a fallout of the crisis.
I am listing some of the most interesting and important ones. These questions can be asked irrespective of organisations, for-profit manufacturing or service, governmental, defense or other not-for-profit organisations across the world.
(colour codes - personal learning, team learning and organisational learning)
1. What was the point of this crisis?
2. What will I do if this event / crisis happens again?
3. What did I learn from this case?
4. How can I move faster next time?
5. What did the team learn and how should we change?
6. How did the crisis benefit us ?
7. How did the crisis damage our business / repute ?
8. How long will it take to recover ?
9. Has the crisis given us improved capabilities and strengths ?
10. What are the new challenges of the future ?
11. How can we leverage on our new capabilities and strengths ?
12. Where do we see ourselves in the next 5 years and 20 years ?
It will require a good team exercise to answer all these questions. But getting answers to these pertinent questions at the time of the greatest crisis that hit humanity in this new century, will indeed give great learning and provide a deep vision into the future.
Thanks to the HBR article Leading into the post Covid recovery, by Merrate Weddel Weddelsbog, August '20.
George..
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