Certainly there are so many awful things about the impact of Covid-19. To be clear, what follows is not meant to minimize those health, welfare and financial consequences.
That's the disclaimer. I am finding, however, that this pandemic is also presenting us with opportunities to move forward with that which we've been wanting to do for a long time.
In conversation with a colleague yesterday, I found her experience in evolving certain aspects of her work to be similar to mine. There are things that we have wanted to change about our work for a very long time; however, we let obstacles get in the way. With the onslaught of this pandemic; it became very clear that we needed to move forward. The priority of the current situation is overcoming the obstacles - not only for the short-term good of the work and individuals involved - but also as a permanent solution.
The impact of Covid 19 is strongly significant - in many ways that are negative. But we should also embrace the ways that it forces us to edit and renogogiate so that we exit this pandemic with a stronger mindset and a better, re-arranged set of priorities.
So we should ask ourselves "What are the things that we have long wanted for our teams?" "What are the ways in which we have wanted to change our work?" "What processes have we wanted to change?"
And here are the key questions. "What has stood in our way?" And, in light of a life changing and culture changing pandemic - are the former obstacles still the priority - or can we proceed with a change we've been meaning to make for a long time?
This is not to suggest that chaos rules; it is to suggest that we should make good, logical use of a chaotic event to make changes that are necessary for better work and better lives.
Because if we can't learn from this - what's the point?
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