As the coronavirus sweeps the globe, organizations, their leaders, and their employees face unprecedented uncertainty. In the chaos of this crisis, one thing has become clear: leadership matters.
AIIR executive coach Danessa Knaupp presents three critical competencies for leading through a crisis:
Knaupp examines each of these characteristics in the context of the coronavirus, and what it means to lead when most people work from their couches and kitchen tables.
Passionate about coaching, leading, and super-charging strategy and process, AIIR executive coach Danessa Knaupp enables clients to deliver results grounded in authenticity.
During her more than 20 years as a senior corporate leader and an entrepreneur, she successfully navigated the same daunting challenges her clients face today. By empowering her clients to bring life and energy to the constant change swirling in today’s corporate environments, Danessa helps executives and teams create value and operate with purpose.
The following are free resources mentioned in this webinar:
AIIR Daily Mindfulness: https://aiirconsulting.com/breathing-aiir-mindfulness-and-wellness-series/
Book Publishing Course: https://scribemedia.com/
Daily Arts & Crafts: https://www.facebook.com/McHarperManor/
5-4-3-2-1 Mindfulness: https://www.msn.com/en-za/health/mindandbody/how-to-ease-anxiety-with-the-54321-mindfulness-trick/ar-AAGrq8s
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Jonathan Kirschner: Hello everyone. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening to everyone joining this global call from around the world.
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Jonathan Kirschner: It’s a pleasure to be hosting is very important call today. Thank you for enhancing our global community through your participation. My name is Jonathan Kirshner. I’m the founder and CEO of air consulting
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Jonathan Kirschner: Our purpose here at air, simply put, is to improve people’s lives through change.
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Jonathan Kirschner: And while our expertise is in helping people in organizations create change. We also support in times when simply navigating change and staying grounded or centered is the sole mission.
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Jonathan Kirschner: Today we find ourselves in a context of brutal and frankly relentless change. And for many of us. It’s like being in the eye of the storm.
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Jonathan Kirschner: As leaders and we are all leaders on this call. We have people on this call from Italy leading in their organizations. We have people from pharmaceutical organizations that are actually creating in the process of creating the cure to the coronavirus
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Jonathan Kirschner: As leaders. We are in spotlight how we navigate this change will affect countless lives.
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Jonathan Kirschner: Right now everyone’s looking up to us, our families, our communities, our teams our organizations, they’re watching how we choose to lead.
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Jonathan Kirschner: And our leadership right now is quite consequential do we run in hide or do we confront and take action do we deny and avoid or do we engage in honest direct conversations
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Jonathan Kirschner: Do we succumb to the swirl of anxiety and panic or do we become the rock that those around us need us to be do we embrace fear or love do we hoard or do we exude generosity.
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Jonathan Kirschner: Today we have a unique opportunity to become exposed to these decisions and to hear from Vanessa NAP, A dear colleague friend and senior coach on our team and our consulting
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Jonathan Kirschner: She also happens to be launching her book naked work of leaders guide to fearless authenticity next week. So congratulations. The NASA work very much looking forward to that.
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Jonathan Kirschner: And the nest is going to share with us in a moment. Some very timely wisdom, both deep and also practical during these very challenging time. So without further ado, I want to turn it over to you to Nessa. Thank you very much.
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Danessa Knaupp: Thank you, Jonathan and I am thrilled to be here today, although I wish our circumstances were all better. We’re going to walk through today.
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Danessa Knaupp: Some thoughts on how you as leader can really manage and lead through this crisis.
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Danessa Knaupp: And when I say crisis. I want to be really clear that where we are now is uncomfortable and uncertain and there certainly have been far more devastating crises in our past.
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Danessa Knaupp: But the Greek and Latin, meaning the root of that word crisis is to decide to sift through. And so we’re going to think about how today’s circumstance helps us really sift through
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Danessa Knaupp: To what’s important to sift through to help us match our intentions to what our outcomes will be. So before we get started, I’d love to understand from you in the chat.
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Danessa Knaupp: Where you’re from today. I know most of us often spend time on the road. Most of us are in office buildings, but I’m coming to you live and in person from a sleepy suburb of Richmond, Virginia. It’s a beautiful day here today so
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Danessa Knaupp: I’d love to know where some of you are from we’ve got well over 100 people on this webinar. I’m nearly 200. So, look, we’ve got folks from the East Coast sunny Florida, New Jersey. Silver Spring.
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Danessa Knaupp: Buffalo probably not 80 degrees in Buffalo.
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Danessa Knaupp: Lots of folks I’m California and Canada. Welcome, everyone. I’m really delighted to be able to be in community here because frankly
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Danessa Knaupp: What we are going through right now is an exercise in community empathy and we’ll talk much more about that.
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Danessa Knaupp: So as we go through. I’m going to share my screen with you. You can put questions in the chat. Although I’ll prompt you for some of those as we go through.
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Danessa Knaupp: But I’d really like this as much as we can to make this a conversation between friends experiencing something new together. So you should be able to see my slides in just a minute.
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Danessa Knaupp: And we’ll begin
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Danessa Knaupp: What’s important as we think about this is that we get to know each other. First, so my name is Vanessa nap.
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Danessa Knaupp: And the CEO and founder of Avenue advisors. I’m also a senior executive coach here at air and delighted to be part of this community.
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Danessa Knaupp: I have been a trusted advisor to C suite and senior executives for several years now, having been for the 20 years prior to that, a leader myself. I’ve been reminded recently that
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Danessa Knaupp: When I was younger than I am today very young, as a leader. I was responsible for a team of nearly 200 in the days after 911 and there are echoes of that in what we’re doing.
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Danessa Knaupp: And I’ve been able to bring forward and draw from those lessons. I’m an author and a speaker my book as Jonathan mentioned is naked at work leaders guide to fearless authenticity, making it work has taken on a whole new meaning.
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Danessa Knaupp: Those of us who are now sitting at doing some social distancing and working from home. So to be clear, it is a metaphor.
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Danessa Knaupp: I’m, I’m a frequent hand washer and to be honest with this group. I really, really dislike change.
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Danessa Knaupp: And so I’m noticing over the last week where it seems like things changed by the hour on what we’re doing and what we understand and what our guidance is
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Danessa Knaupp: That a lot of that is coming, front and center. A lot of my own experience is coming, front and center. And I imagine that for many of you, you’re noticing that too. So our goals today are to give you a framework to really think about how you want to show up.
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Danessa Knaupp: Because the truth is that leadership matters more now than it did last week, last month, last year.
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Danessa Knaupp: You think about an emergency. If you think about any sort of crisis, we get to a place where we are looking for a clear and compelling voice.
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Danessa Knaupp: Even as people talk about medical rooms triage. There’s always someone in charge. There’s always someone having a conversation about what’s next. And for those of us in this room. That’s our job.
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Danessa Knaupp: And so, the truth is, as you think about your role as leader mattering most. Now, what I would call out to you is that you have a choice.
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Danessa Knaupp: That you have a choice and how you show up, you will be remembered for how you’ve managed through this and you get to decide what that looks like. You get to decide what that idea is what that intention is
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Danessa Knaupp: There are three competencies that emerged that become differentiators for leaders in crisis.
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Danessa Knaupp: The first is that of candor. The second is compassion. And the third is courage.
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Danessa Knaupp: No matter what, if we think about leaders focused on delivering candid communication doing so with compassion and humanity.
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Danessa Knaupp: And being brave in the face of the unknown are the ones who’ve changed the course of how we’ve navigated
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Danessa Knaupp: difficult times, you can think historically, you could think within your organization. But if you were to bring to mind a leader that you believe has done this well.
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Danessa Knaupp: I’d argue that they did that on a foundation of these three competencies. These three competencies matter a ton for leaders every single day, but because they matter more. Now we’re going to spend our time now.
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Danessa Knaupp: So we’ll start with candor.
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Danessa Knaupp: candor.
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Danessa Knaupp: Make sure that we’re moving through the slides here. There we go, Candor is about being really clear.
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Danessa Knaupp: Being clear with your teams on what you expect clear with your clients about what you can deliver and really clear about what you don’t know yet if you’re like me your email box is full of every relationship virtual or not that you have in your life and
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Danessa Knaupp: Vendors telling you what they’re doing about this the messages that stand out, are the ones that have either a clear call to action or our brief, that’s one of the reasons we spent very little time thinking about lots of follow up to this.
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Danessa Knaupp: When we are in crisis clarity and concise notice is really important. So for you, as you think about your team’s
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Danessa Knaupp: candor might come to play as you think about delivering expectations to them on how they might work differently in this environment. So things like do you expect them to be available for the same hours, you might have before.
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Danessa Knaupp: What resources are available to them.
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Danessa Knaupp: Do you expect them to do the same amount of work that they might have before.
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Danessa Knaupp: What happens if a family member gets sick thinking proactively about how you can help people navigate this by being really crisp in your communication is important.
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Danessa Knaupp: Clear with clients on what you can deliver is another really important conversation. This isn’t a time to over promise there never really is.
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Danessa Knaupp: But this is a time to really be clear on what you might have to do differently now what you’re still considering or most importantly what you don’t yet understand
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Danessa Knaupp: You think about candor, you want to think about making sure that your message is value add that you’re not adding to noise for people
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Danessa Knaupp: I had to laugh out loud when I got an email from some of my relationships.
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Danessa Knaupp: Right there, sitting in my email box, taking up room, taking up mindshare and they’re not businesses that really are impacted by this my relationship isn’t impacted by this. But they felt the need to say something.
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Danessa Knaupp: Be careful about that as a leader. You want to make sure that what you’re saying to people is clear and value add
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Danessa Knaupp: The clarity helps build trust. But the other thing it does is it makes it easy for people to hear you.
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Danessa Knaupp: I don’t know about you, but we have children working from home with us as well.
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Danessa Knaupp: So here in this House about a week ago, I was pretty sure that we were going to do. Hashtag own things. So we were going to homeschool
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Danessa Knaupp: We were going to all work out. We were all going to really take this opportunity to hone our best selves.
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Danessa Knaupp: And it was about yesterday where I decided that my bar for success has turned into we are all going to still be speaking and alive at the end of this, this is a lot of change for everyone involved, whether they’re in your home or in your office.
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Danessa Knaupp: And when you speak clearly and candidly, as a leader. It enables them to hear you think of all the things you have on your mind right now that have nothing to do with this webinar.
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Danessa Knaupp: Your mind is full of how you’re going to manage relatives who are at risk, how you’re going to manage children out of school.
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Danessa Knaupp: How you’re going to think about leading in your business, all of these things crowd our minds and so it’s critical that as leaders we are clear in our messaging, because the people listening to us have so much other noise.
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Danessa Knaupp: The last thing I would say about Canada.
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Danessa Knaupp: Is sometimes socially. We think that candor is the opposite of being nice and being candid isn’t nice
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Danessa Knaupp: Think it’s really important that we remember that nice is actually a social Moray that protects us keeps us out of uncomfortable things. It keeps things moving along smoothly.
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Danessa Knaupp: But what we really want to strive for here is to be kind to be kind to ourselves to be kind to the people listening to our messaging and so it might be kind to be clear with a client that you don’t know that you can deliver on the timeline you promised.
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Danessa Knaupp: I’d be not be nice for them to hear
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Danessa Knaupp: Might not be comfortable for everyone, but it allows them the most information in the earliest way and that is kind
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Danessa Knaupp: So the first competency that I want you to really think about and internalized as we talk through this is that of candor.
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Danessa Knaupp: Will move now to a reflection exercise in the chat in a moment. I’m going to ask if you’re comfortable, you’re welcome to share this. But to start this is just for you.
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Danessa Knaupp: I want you to walk away from this and really feel like you have an action plan to put your leadership intentions into practice. And so this is where we put the rubber to the road here.
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Danessa Knaupp: I’d like you to jot down just a couple of ways.
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Danessa Knaupp: That you could be candid now. And the question I asked you the prompt I’d give you is, what do you need to be candid about
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Danessa Knaupp: So I’ll give you about a minute to think about that.
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Danessa Knaupp: to jot that down for yourself what you need to be candid about to allow your leadership intention to match your execution to create this legacy of helping people understand
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Danessa Knaupp: What they need to be and do and make sure that you really shape your leadership legacy. What do you need to do. Excuse me. What do you need to be candid about now.
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Danessa Knaupp: Alright so that was about a minute I did invite you to share in the chat. And remember, you want to click to make sure it’s to all participants.
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Danessa Knaupp: All panelists and attendees as Robin has put kindly in the chat to share what you need to be candid about now.
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Danessa Knaupp: So how goals still need to be met, availability, what we don’t know. I love that.
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Danessa Knaupp: Tim, I love the idea of we have new norms. This is going to be different. We don’t have all the answers. Yeah, maybe I don’t
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Danessa Knaupp: I don’t think everyone does.
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Danessa Knaupp: Yeah, Erica. I love when we return back to normal.
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Danessa Knaupp: And back. I don’t know what that’s going to be
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Danessa Knaupp: Right, good. So this is great thoughts and
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Danessa Knaupp: I’d encourage you to think about being candid
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Danessa Knaupp: In an appropriate way.
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Danessa Knaupp: Will help you build trust with that team. Yeah, sometimes personal or family needs will try and professional ones. Yeah, having that conversation is important.
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Danessa Knaupp: Good. Thank you. I’d encourage you, if you want to continue reflecting on that, please feel free to jot down again.
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Danessa Knaupp: The theme we’re weaving through here is if people are going to remember you as leader, if this is going to create your legacy. How can you harness your intention and make sure that’s what you’re delivering and the first step is around being candid
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Danessa Knaupp: The second step is around being compassionate.
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Danessa Knaupp: So thinking about how can we be flexible and human
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Danessa Knaupp: Flexible and human. The good news is you are already human so you don’t have to practice that
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Danessa Knaupp: Most of us though just need to remember that in all of this, we are experiencing this first as human beings and second as employees and leaders.
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Danessa Knaupp: And frankly, maybe fifth or 10th as employees and leaders but compassion is about being flexible and human we want to think about what might your people need as the work environment shifts. So a great example is, is their training they need is their equipment they need
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Danessa Knaupp: I spoke to a broadcaster recently and their company cannot get the equipment they need to broadcast in their home. And so this broadcaster has to go into work.
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Danessa Knaupp: And can’t social distance in the way that she wants to
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Danessa Knaupp: That’s a great opportunity for her leaders and her company to proactively be thinking about what am I, people need in this environment, they might need.
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Danessa Knaupp: More awareness that hey, we’re going to do our best. And that might mean that we no longer have to dress a certain way, when we get on video. It’s not the same as being in the office. It might be okay to have kids and pets in the background.
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Danessa Knaupp: What might you people need you to say, I need you to give them to really help them understand. So I’d encourage you to think about that.
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Danessa Knaupp: You might have to know how to connect the really most important part of this for you as a leader you can’t do any of these things. If you’re not going to be present and visible.
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Danessa Knaupp: So your people might just need to see
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Danessa Knaupp: Or hear from you on Slack or text or email or video
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Danessa Knaupp: I was speaking with an air colleague this morning, who told me about a CEO who is having coffee in the morning with her employees on an open zoom call. That’s great.
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Danessa Knaupp: There are small things that people need. And if we think first about compassion and think first about our humanity, we can do a lot in this case.
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Danessa Knaupp: As you think about what your people need. You might think also about. How might your clients need to experience your compassion.
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Danessa Knaupp: So how do you think about a cancellation policy. How do you think about billing. It was a great example. Early on, from a company, not doing this so
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Danessa Knaupp: Delta Airlines and American Airlines. If you are watching their response to this Delta Airlines came out and said hey shift your travel, we got it. We’re good.
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Danessa Knaupp: American Airlines response for the first 24 hours was hey if you continue buying tickets tickets bought after March 1 happy to shift them.
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Danessa Knaupp: Know,
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Danessa Knaupp: That wasn’t broad enough, it wasn’t compassionate enough American has absolutely fallen in line. They’ve gotten in the right space. So there’s no bad dogs here but
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Danessa Knaupp: If they’d been thinking first about compassion around. What do we need to do for our people for people who are worried about travel
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Danessa Knaupp: When they bought the ticket isn’t important. So putting that lens of compassion across how you’re working with clients will help you understand what they may need
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Danessa Knaupp: The most important piece, though, is the third piece of compassion and it’s how might you be compassionate to yourself as leader.
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Danessa Knaupp: We have now well over 200 people on this call. And I would argue that each of you has always been a fast runner and a high performer.
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Danessa Knaupp: And argued. Lots of you also decided that this was the time I’m going to be home. I’m going to do 200 push ups a day. That’s great. I have no excuse. I shouldn’t be sitting in any room that has a project to do because I’m home all the time.
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Danessa Knaupp: And that may be true, but vastly underestimate the emotional weight of what you’re carrying
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Danessa Knaupp: Everything has been disrupted for us. That’s not terrible. I’m not complaining. Many of us have food plenty of food to eat plenty of places to be. But we are still disrupted and then being disrupted things require more energy.
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Danessa Knaupp: So your morning routine, which used to be, get up, get dressed, leave the house as people are just waking grab your coffee from your Barista hop on the train and get into your office now looks really different. You’re probably related to the barista now right
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Danessa Knaupp: Everyone else is still in the room with you.
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Danessa Knaupp: Adjusting to new across every single thing that we’re doing requires energy. And so if you’re exhausted. At the end of the day, and don’t have time to be your best self, if all you can do is show up and survive for a day. Okay.
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Danessa Knaupp: Looking at yourself compassionately will allow you to do that.
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Danessa Knaupp: We know when we think about positive psychology that blasting yourself for what you’re not able to do isn’t going to get you far
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Danessa Knaupp: So when you think about the lens of
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Danessa Knaupp: Compassion and think about it for your clients. Think about it for your people and think about it for yourself what bubbles to the top as important is different than it might have been a month ago.
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Danessa Knaupp: Or in an expanded way or in the way that matches your intentions. Many of you are already doing this.
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Danessa Knaupp: I’d like you to just jot down some thoughts on what do you need to do first exercise compassion and then in a minute. Those of you that are comfortable can share them, but please jot them for yourself and then share them in the moment.
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Danessa Knaupp: Alright, as you’re comfortable, please. If you’d like to share with our group here. I’d love to hear what you need to do first to exercise that compassion.
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Danessa Knaupp: So I’m seeing flexibility deeply think and put myself in someone else’s shoes. Yeah, personal check ins with folks. I love that.
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Danessa Knaupp: I saw medication fly by that’s critically important, right, making sure that we’re taking care of our physical bodies.
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Danessa Knaupp: More comfort for work from home, folks. Yep.
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Danessa Knaupp: Oh, and more more compassion for your college student. I was blown away by the emotional response of my college student to being home not prepared for that on really had to dig in and find my compassion for that.
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Danessa Knaupp: And self compassion. Yeah, not always being grounded in these times, these are unprecedented times and we are human. We are not always going to be our best selves. You can just notice. Wow, that’s a really small thought I probably need a snack or a nap. I
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Danessa Knaupp: One of the things I’m noticing that I’m having a lot of conversations about is and for it through this lens of compassion is the idea that uncertain isn’t necessarily unsafe.
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Danessa Knaupp: And this is hard because it’s hard. We haven’t done it before. We’re all beginners at this
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Danessa Knaupp: All right, thank you so much for sharing it in the chat. Lots of great ideas there.
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Danessa Knaupp: Lots of great ideas.
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Danessa Knaupp: So we’re going to move to the third piece of this, and that is about courage.
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Danessa Knaupp: Courage is about being brave and bold and I’m not talking about peacock bold. I’m talking about thinking in a new way, exploring in a new way, creating new and different expectations for yourself and others. So here’s some ways that we might bring forward courage.
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Danessa Knaupp: To be clear, this is an unprecedented opportunity to innovate and create. It’s unprecedented
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Danessa Knaupp: It has changed our world so quickly. All of us have whiplash. And we have new and different meetings now than we did a week ago. This is not about capitalizing on catastrophe. Please don’t misunderstand me
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Danessa Knaupp: It’s not about price gouging. It’s not about hoarding hand sanitizer. This guy’s got what was coming to them if you knew that news story.
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Danessa Knaupp: This is about how might you really think differently. This is disruption on a global scale, and we can think about how to show up in that in a way that helps all of us. So how do you think about empowering your team.
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Danessa Knaupp: Can you use this change and circumstance to see the world in a different way. And there are great examples of this all around us right now. So one of my favorites is a tiny art shop in the Midwest, the cold MacArthur Manor.
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Danessa Knaupp: MacArthur manner every day at one o’clock goes live on Facebook with an art class for children of all ages. This is a tiny art shop. They have thousands 10s of thousands
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Danessa Knaupp: Of children doing art with them and they are captivated for an hour they published the supply list so that you can get it off Amazon. They updated daily
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Danessa Knaupp: In another endeavor. There’s a publishing house to be transparent to the publishing house associated with my book. This is not an advertisement. But this is why I know about it.
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Danessa Knaupp: That realized you know what everybody’s trapped at home. A lot of people are probably thinking, hey, I should read that book. They’re giving a two day class away for free on how to write your books and then it gets published go out and sign up for it.
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Danessa Knaupp: That’s what they can contribute here. So each of us can think about what can we contribute, what can we do, what’s the gift we can bring forward.
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Danessa Knaupp: And how do we do that in a way that matches. Today’s expectations. I
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Danessa Knaupp: Think all of you have heard, perhaps because all we do is watch the news right or read the news about the perfume factory that shifted and is making hand sanitizer about the folks who have 3D printers that are making ventilator parts.
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Danessa Knaupp: Really quick and nimble responses somebody asking for the name of the heart of the art shop. It’s MacArthur manner.
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Danessa Knaupp: So when you think about being brave and bold, you want to think about how do you innovate and create but also how are you
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Danessa Knaupp: Thinking about being brave and bold in support of your people in support of your community and partners. We are not staying home. Most of us because we’re worried. We’re going to get this
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Danessa Knaupp: We’re staying home as an exercise in community empathy to build our community and to keep us all safe.
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Danessa Knaupp: And we can take that further as we think about support. So when we think about support, we can think about stepping out of our comfort zone and doing something different. That’s brave.
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Danessa Knaupp: If that CEO having coffee with hundreds of people every morning as an introvert, putting herself on camera and showing up that way to all those people early in the morning is brave.
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Danessa Knaupp: Patagonia CEO Rosemary carrio shut her doors and shut her website and paid all her people well before the declare declaration of a national emergency and did so.
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Danessa Knaupp: In the name of public health and safety for her employees. That’s bold, there’s no financial projection that would suggest, she should do that.
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Danessa Knaupp: In fact, I’m guessing that there were folks who weren’t happy with that.
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Danessa Knaupp: Eric Yuan, the CEO of zoom the company we’re using for this platform has made his product free for all k 12 schools at a time when his CFO is talking about making sure they keep up with capacity.
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Danessa Knaupp: So the third piece of living out your leadership legacy and intention is about being courageous again not peacock bold not look at me bold.
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Danessa Knaupp: But being brave in a way that is different than we’ve been before.
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Danessa Knaupp: You can look around and see opportunities to do that.
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Danessa Knaupp: To think about again for yourself and then in the chat if you’re comfortable sharing with us. What opportunity do you have to inspire or live out your courage.
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Danessa Knaupp: We’d love to hear from you on how you are going to be brave.
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Danessa Knaupp: Yeah, depend on and work on the team that’s hard sometimes for leaders.
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Danessa Knaupp: And depending on the team and opening up for ideas that you may have wanted more awareness have more control more vetting of that’s brave and I’m seeing lots of that being vulnerable.
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Danessa Knaupp: Brian saying we have the opportunity to be bold creators of a new and better world and to reinvent absolutely true.
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Danessa Knaupp: I tend to be a Pollyanna anyway. But the truth is future work was coming and lots of US weren’t ready. We’re going to get right here. We’re going to know more. At the end of this than we did before.
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Danessa Knaupp: Giving time to people, reducing work yeah to expect full productivity from your people in the near term is
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Danessa Knaupp: We talked about humanity and in my book and talk about, you know, we’re not acknowledging the human experience of our people. It doesn’t mean they’re not having it. It just means we’re not aware of it.
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Danessa Knaupp: All right, good. So I think that opportunity to inspire courage is really a critical one for us to think about
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Danessa Knaupp: Leaders and teams will feel the ripple effect of this moment for a really long time.
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Danessa Knaupp: It just. Will you remember. Remember what happened in your work after 911 if you were working, then
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Danessa Knaupp: So the purpose of our conversation today is to help you pull out of the triage and think consciously about what is the impression I want to leave. What is the legacy. I want to leave here.
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Danessa Knaupp: But the underlying courage is there. So, thinking, using the frames of candor compassion and courage, you can set your intention about how you want to lead and live that out.
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Danessa Knaupp: I want to pause now and give us time for questions. So this has been a high level view of these things. And I know so many of you on have probably questions about how to live that out for yourselves, or your people.
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Danessa Knaupp: So I’d ask you to put your questions in the chat and Robin has kindly offered
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Danessa Knaupp: To help moderate those and I’d be happy to spend some time answering those before we wrap up.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: All right, thank you so much done. So this has been absolutely excellent so yes will begin to answer some questions, you can go ahead and put them in the chat.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: And we’ll get through as many as we can. So I see a great question down here from Rachel. It says, what advice would you give to leaders who need to keep morale up when many team members are being let go.
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Danessa Knaupp: Yeah, I think, um, I don’t know that our old frame of keeping morale up in the same way we did before applies when lots of people are being let go. The truth is, there are industries that are letting people go and we don’t have a safety net.
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Danessa Knaupp: And so sometimes simply acknowledging that and saying how hard it is to watch how hard it is to live.
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Danessa Knaupp: And being able to rely on what you know that company will do if you don’t know what the company will do. You don’t want to do this, but thinking about here’s how we’re committed to helping you through this process.
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Danessa Knaupp: Is really all you can do. That’s that candor. Right on. This is a really difficult situation. It’s unprecedented and we’re having to make difficult decisions that have negative impact on people and that’s really hard.
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Danessa Knaupp: And that’s sometimes. All we can say about that. But I think trying to spin or shine or saying, Hey, it’s okay, let’s keep keep our chins up
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Danessa Knaupp: That that would be my advice. But again, advice is a one person game. So you could ask 100 people and get 100 other opinions, too.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Yeah, that’s fantastic. Alright, so we’ve got another question here from Sam. It says trust in the workplace is critical. So how do you inspire trust in organizations that are stressed and working remotely.
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Danessa Knaupp: So I think the framework, I’d offer is to remind leaders that there are three kinds of trust. So there’s strategic trust. There’s organizational trust or systemic trust. And then there’s our personal trust.
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Danessa Knaupp: And leaders would do be well served to make sure they’re building on each of the three where they have control. So interpersonal trust is I trust you. I trust, Robin. I trust Jonathan and
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Danessa Knaupp: You know personally. We can work that out organizational trust is I trust in the systems that are pulled us. And oh, by the way, as a society, in the United States and and most of the countries.
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Danessa Knaupp: Throughout the world now we’re a little being not a little we’re being rocked on systemic trust right the math on hospital beds and potential hospitalizations rocks are systemic trust.
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Danessa Knaupp: Then, a lot of people are going to get sick and we can’t do that. I didn’t know that before but that’s an example of when systemic trust feels funky.
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Danessa Knaupp: So you want to think about how do you inspire systemic trust what systems, does your company have in place to help people.
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Danessa Knaupp: And can they trust those and then you want to think about strategic trust. So how are people trusting in your overall leadership vision so leaders would be well served to tend to each of these three kinds of trust and they’ll have the strongest results.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Sorry about that. There’s a great question down here from Jay, how can leaders be aware when their colleagues may be in need of mental health support and how should they handle that. Yeah.
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Danessa Knaupp: Great question, J. So the first way I would answer that is there are lots of qualified folks on the air global team who are both counselors.
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Danessa Knaupp: And coaches, I am not one of those people. So what I’m giving you is not medical advice. What I would say is there are widely available to us as leaders screening questions for mental health issues.
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Danessa Knaupp: Those are available to you online. You can ask a qualified counselor to help with those and you want to be thinking about that. So I think, Jay, the most
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Danessa Knaupp: The easiest way for people to be aware of it is to understand that they are all stressed, we are all not the best version of ourselves right now.
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Danessa Knaupp: And so we are more susceptible to things we’re more susceptible to falling out of our routines more susceptible to not caring for ourselves. So know when people sit across from you. They are not the best version of themselves and help them. Look at what support they might need.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Fantastic. There’s a question down here. So from key to who’s another one of our coaches. She says, I’m curious to hear your thoughts to NASA on the higher potential meaning of what is going on today.
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Danessa Knaupp: I you know I thought about this on my walk this morning I have instituted a mandatory mental health walk which on day one. The whole family went on and
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Danessa Knaupp: Today, out of the five children who live with me here at home, only one went on. So, just as we talk about courage and lowering our expectations, that’s about where I’ve gotten on that.
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Danessa Knaupp: But I was on the mental health lot this morning, I was thinking about, we have an opportunity, each of us. And this comes from my own experience.
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Danessa Knaupp: I’m a planner in my life. So I had for international vacations, all of which have canceled and and it really has come present for me how much I was living ahead of myself.
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Danessa Knaupp: And for me, it has been a reminder about presence, you know, one of the exercises I teach folks when they’re working with anxiety. Again, I’m not a therapist. It’s leaders, working with anxiety as they plan.
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Danessa Knaupp: And for many of us. That’s what this is doing and i don’t i don’t
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Danessa Knaupp: pretend to know any more than that, too. But for myself, personally, that’s what it’s doing is I am living very much in this morning, very much in this now and very much of this afternoon and tomorrow, what else probably gonna do today.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Absolutely. Um, here’s a great question here from Margaret, you’re talking about these different behaviors. She asks, How important is it for these actions to be demonstrated from the top down.
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Danessa Knaupp: Oh man, if I could build out organizations. Let’s put everybody top down, doing these things. But the truth is,
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Danessa Knaupp: And everyone’s personal experience. Many of you are likely our clients in some capacity and so you may have been exposed to the Hogan, which talks about
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Danessa Knaupp: And sort of fluctuating circumstances and we’re all over the map on that. So it would be great if leaders could demonstrate this from the top down, I would always choose that.
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Danessa Knaupp: Having people who are also living this by next to you. Below you no matter where you are in your organization, your presence connected self, your conscious understanding that what you do now matters.
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Danessa Knaupp: will support your organization. This is really about emotional intelligence right emotional intelligence is about understanding our own experience and understanding how that shows up in our interactions with others. That’s what it is. Right, knowing yourself owning yourself.
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Danessa Knaupp: And some of us are better at that than others, and some of them are dealing with bigger stressors than others, and some are better this afternoon and others will be tonight.
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Danessa Knaupp: So it would be awesome. But if not, it counts, even if those around your domain or below. You’re doing it.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Great. I’m Jim asks, how do you best communicate about likely bad news when it is not clear as to how much or how soon without causing panic. Yeah.
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Danessa Knaupp: Let me comment on that and also get to is kind of coming on excited and thriving in the current context. I’m always better in the mornings I feel like this is a hot mess disaster at night. Right. So I know that about
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Danessa Knaupp: Things are great sometimes and worse, others and
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Danessa Knaupp: Give me an answer to your question. I was having a conversation with my teenage son last night and I said to him, You know, I’m really concerned about your grandparents, we should really be thinking about your grandparents right now.
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Danessa Knaupp: He looked at me, he was like, Mom, how is that supposed to call me down. Now I’m worried about the thing I was worried about and worried about my grandparents.
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Danessa Knaupp: And I said, yeah, sorry, that was a shitty thing to do, right. So in the moment and forgive my language in the moment we’re not all great at this, but you want to think about when you have bad news.
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Danessa Knaupp: You want to think about what do you know what do you not know. So how candid, can you be, how are you able to care for people in it, what’s the likely human reaction.
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Danessa Knaupp: And in your gut, what is the right thing to do.
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Danessa Knaupp: Even though it may be uncomfortable for you.
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Danessa Knaupp: And so if that looks like telling people, if our sales shipped down by another 10% we have to think about costs. And one of the ways we might think about costs is around staff hours.
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Danessa Knaupp: And so while that’s not on the table. Now, it may be at some later point you may choose to have that conversation other people may have that exact same data and say we are not choosing to look at that now.
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Danessa Knaupp: And that’s all they say, but I would think about the frame of courage candor and compassion and see what that brings forward to you. You want to be compassionate enough that you’re not frightening people
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Danessa Knaupp: But you also want people to understand what the reality is that they have some time to think about that and prepare
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Excellent. There’s a good question here. I can’t see who it’s from. But it says when people are looking for structure or roadmap for weeks to come in times like this. How do you balance their need for long term security and short term realities. Yeah.
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Danessa Knaupp: So it depends on how brave you’re feeling right um we could talk about hey we all want certainty uncertainty is a total illusion. Anyway, but I wouldn’t suggest that right now.
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Danessa Knaupp: That is not the message I would send but I think we would notice and you can say me and it would be great if we had a month long plan.
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Danessa Knaupp: But what we’re doing this week is really different than what we’re doing next. And so here’s the structure. I can give you. You always be talking to me about this, I will always be honest with you.
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Danessa Knaupp: Here’s how often we’re going to talk. Here’s the metrics, we’re going to review that will help us make decisions.
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Danessa Knaupp: So sometimes when everything is chaotic, you can think about what structure, can you add to your process to your interaction that will help people feel more secure.
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Danessa Knaupp: And then know to that that process may not be the one you have forever, but it can help. Um, can I address one of the questions in here. Robin about
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Danessa Knaupp: Let me scroll up somebody says it Mary Rose says to me, Candor, doesn’t mean unfiltered unfiltered often I’ve seen managers use the excuse of being authentic to say anything they want to
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Danessa Knaupp: That’s not what I’m talking about. So the I AM WHO I AM brand of authenticity is about self defense and protection when I talk about authenticity and I do a ton. In the book, releasing next week, but also about candor. I’m talking about in support of other people.
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Danessa Knaupp: So candor doesn’t support you as leader candor exist to support others.
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Danessa Knaupp: And so if you think about that frame. How can I be candid in support of other people that typically helps manage that I am I am brand of authenticity.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Absolutely. That’s excellent. Thank you for making that point.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Because a question from Mitch, how far can we go and communicating the boundary is required for containment.
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Danessa Knaupp: So, meaning the public health guidelines.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Yeah, I think this is sort of asking tapping into what’s appropriate. How do we know we’re talking, especially we’re talking about candor and courage, where might that boundary be
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Danessa Knaupp: Yeah. So, and this is a little bit where it can get socially Weird, right, because we somehow turn this into kind of a debate thing on like, do we are, don’t we, do we believe in it or not.
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Danessa Knaupp: Have an ornery 74 year old father told me once he doesn’t believe in umbrellas. And my answer was, they exist. You don’t get to debate that
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Danessa Knaupp: Whether you use them or not is different. Um, so I’d argue there are very clear precedents, what’s happening in public health. There is very clear guidance from the CDC on what we should do.
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Danessa Knaupp: And as leaders, now is the time to take and hold your position on that and it may be different than your personal privilege and honor right
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Danessa Knaupp: So you make personally think a social listening isn’t something I need to do. I’m comfortable being in a place where
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Danessa Knaupp: I can you know kind of create with 10 or fewer people but i’m not saying in my house all the time. That’s your personal decision that isn’t aligned with current guidance.
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Danessa Knaupp: And so you want to think about as leader your responsibility to keep people safe. And I would argue that that at least aligns with public health guidance.
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Danessa Knaupp: If not, what we’re seeing from scientists or the World Health Organization on what containment really looks like. So I had a really clear conversation with many of my clients in the last
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Danessa Knaupp: 10 days where I stepped out of my coaching role and said, if you’re not a critical service. We need to be working from home. How do we think about that, and that was something I felt was my responsibility for overall public health we have platforms as leaders and using those is important.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Absolutely.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: All right, thank you so much. And so we are coming up on our time here to Nessa I’ll ask for just any kind of final thoughts or tips and then we’ll kick over to Jonathan, just to thank everyone for coming.
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Danessa Knaupp: So I would say just be kind and compassionate to yourself. Notice what you’re feeling and notice how that shows up in your interactions with others, it will inform
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Danessa Knaupp: How you handle this. It will make you closer to your people to understand how you’re handling it yourself and
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Danessa Knaupp: We have lots of time to figure out how to do this at an eight plus way we’re taking this class pass fail rate so you can get through where everybody is passing
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Danessa Knaupp: That’s a good day. We’re beginners, that’s, that’s what I would leave you with. And I’m happy to help anyone that team and errors. Fantastic. This is really an opportunity for us to support you in any way we can. And we’re happy to do that.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Fantastic. Yes. And we’ll kick over to Jonathan in just a second. Many of you have asked about sharing the resources that were mentioned in this call.
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Robyn Garrett, AIIR Cosulting Host: Will definitely do that via email. A little bit later today. And then we’ll also be able to send out the recording in a couple of days. So Jonathan
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Danessa Knaupp: Thanks very much, everyone.
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Jonathan Kirschner: Nessa Robin. Thank you so much. This was both inspiring and also both concrete and actionable. At the same time, which is so appreciated.
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Jonathan Kirschner: And interestingly, like this idea actually evolved last week out of our from our global
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Jonathan Kirschner: Peer supervision that we call discovery at air consulting and we were talking about their coronavirus and
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Jonathan Kirschner: Just trying to make meaning of it. And somebody said, You know what, this is the time for generosity and
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Jonathan Kirschner: About a minute or two later, Vanessa raised her hand and said, I got an idea. And, and so I want to thank you Vanessa, of course, for your courage, but also the broader team at air and all of our amazing coaches who
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Jonathan Kirschner: foster this idea and many more. I believe that are coming from this. I think this this notion of courage and the innovation implications.
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Jonathan Kirschner: are totally right. You know, just streaming from us. And one of the things that we are offering is a daily
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Jonathan Kirschner: Mindfulness and wellness series at 12 o’clock, between now and April 3 we’ll see if we need to extend that. But you can come into a zoom call with one of our mindfulness experts. They gloss and and really get grounded.
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Jonathan Kirschner: At around 12 o’clock eastern time every day between now and April 3 so did. So thank you again. And so wonderful to be again with everybody on this global call and stay well everyone
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Jonathan Kirschner: Bye for now.
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