Useful Resources and Articles During this Pandemic
This is a leadership challenge, a time for leaders to be both strategic and tactical.
This is a time for leaders to be intentional in their messaging.
This is a time to be concerned and supportive of the people with whom we work.
Remote-team managers can learn a lot from open-source communities, Cate Huston, Quartz at Work, May 19, 2020
Connect - Communicate - Commit: Coachng in a Virtual Environment
How to Foster Inclusion While Working From Home, Melonie Parker, Chief Diversity Officer, Google, April 23, 2020
What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common? Women Leaders, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, April 13, 2020
When The Pandemic Is Over, Will U.S. Higher Education Be Ready To Get People Back To Work?, Paul LeBlanc, Forbes, April 12, 2020
Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure, Aisha S. Ahmad, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 27, 2020
I’ll be right back. How to protect your energy during Zoom meetings, Fast Company, April 15, 2020
Affective Labor: The Need for, and Cost of, Workplace Equanimity, Lee Skallerup Bessette, EducauseReview, March 26, 2020
Tips for Troubleshooting Home Connectivity
That Discomfort You Are Feeling Is Grief by Scott Berinato, HBR, March 23, 2020
Virtual Offsites That Work, by Bob Frisch, Cary Greene, Dan Prager, HBR, March 25, 2020
Leading Culture Through Crisis, Professor Jenny Chatman, Paul J. Cortese, Distinguished Professor of Management, Haas School of Business
Are You Leading Through the Crisis ... or Managing the Response, by Eric J. McNulty and Leonard Marcus, March 25, 2020
Leading Through COVID-19, Finding hope and opportunity in a global calamity, Eric J. McNulty, MIT Sloan Management Review, March 06, 2020
10 Ways Inclusive Leaders Can Mitigate Bias When Communicating About Coronavirus, Medium, Brevity & Wit, March15
A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers, by Barbara Z. Larson, Susan R. Vroman and Erin E. Makarius, March 18, 2020
Transitioning to Remote Work, Ana Borray, EDUCAUSE, The Professional Development Commons, March 2020.
How to Work From Home: 20 Tips From People Who do It Successfully, Erik Devaney, blogspot.com.
15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered, Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business Review, March 2020.
Working from home? Here’s how to separate the ‘work’ from the ‘home’, Talkroute Content Team, Talkroute blog (undated).
A Blueprint for Remote Working: Lessons from China, Raphael Bick, Michael Chang, Kevin Wei Wang, and Tianwen Yu, McKinsey & Company, McKinsey Digital, March 2020.
Practices for Navigating COVID Times by Jim Dezieck, MOR Associates Facilitator and Leadership Coach
Feeling Anxious?
Dr. Jud Brewer is a psychiatrist (now sheltering in place) in Massachusetts, who has been putting out short (5 minute) videos every day related to what is most relevant right now. For each topic, I first start with a little science of what is going on (e.g. how anxiety + social contagion= panic) and then give simple tips that you can start practicing today. The videos can be viewed as a playlist on my YouTube channel by clicking this link.