Own your feelings so that you can act from a place of choice

Viktor Frankl’s wisdom, from “Man’s Search for Meaning”

Over the last week and more, in response to our new global VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) environment, I have shifted my time to give to the community by supporting leaders through zoom meetings, listening to them “sound out” their thoughts and then looking to add value to their Crisis Leadership from my own experience, tools, methods.

One overarching theme has been the power of simply acknowledging where we are and how we feel.

Linked to this I share the Frankl quote above, one which has always meant so much to me at times of challenge.

Now, often we are taught that leaders must be tough, invulnerable, no chink in the armour. I don’t agree. It is always paramount to be authentic, but particularly now.

In this moment of global crisis, every single human on this planet is feeling some degree of fear, so we must first acknowledge that then lead our people forwards with commitment and confidence that, together, we will find our way through and that “this too shall pass”.

So, I share now that last week, in amidst my own solidity and confidence in supporting all…