It is testing time for leaders amid unforeseen roadblocks

This means that HR leaders will need to start collaborating more with employees at every level. Now is the time to focus on interpersonal relationships rather than control, standards, and hierarchy.
This means that HR leaders will need to start collaborating more with employees at every level. Now is the time to focus on interpersonal relationships rather than control, standards, and hierarchy.

What kind of specific traits and mindsets are required to lead businesses during the crisis?

SS Some of the traits and mindsets required today:

1) CEOs are expected to show deliberate calm and bounded optimism. Everyone wants them to demonstrate empathyand, at the same time, be highly engaged and fact based in their actions. They are expected to make a positive difference in people’s lives with their leadership and wield both telescope and microscope adroitlyi.e. have both a coherent long-term view and a set of effective short-term fixes at hand.

2) In times of crisis, no job is more important than taking care of teams first and then customers. There is need to strengthen relationships and build trust, keeping focus off yourself.

The focus is on improvement, not exponential growth. Improvement is always possible. Cost cutting is inevitable in dire times, but the current crisis is an...

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Dr. Shalini Sarin

is the co-founder of EV charging CPO- Elektromobilitat and sits on a few Corporate boards where she serves as an Independent Director. Her experience ranges from, global Chief People Officer to leading Sustainable Social business and has worked across India, Europe and the US in regional and global roles. Value creation through intangibles like purpose and leadership is her mantra.

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Dr. Shalini Sarin

is the co-founder of EV charging CPO- Elektromobilitat and sits on a few Corporate boards where she serves as an Independent Director. Her experience ranges from, global Chief People Officer to leading Sustainable Social business and has worked across India, Europe and the US in regional and global roles. Value creation through intangibles like purpose and leadership is her mantra.

March 2024

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