When falling out of balance we often seek to rebalance and refocus by seeking patterns to assimilate our next steps from. Announcement of a layoff is unsettling at a corporate and personal level.
This is a time where human nature being what it is, seeks to discover patterns in communication style, that helps us plan for business refocus. We all know we share an equal stake of risk to being laid off. Looking for a pattern as to who is laid off and how that will relate to you is impractical, although often irresistable self indulgence.
It is a time when we can focus ourselves best with a flexibility of not reading and acting too much on unchecked assumptions. If we have a equal probability of staying in our jobs, or going, is often nothing we can control. So what then is a good way to use our desire for patterns to trace a path forward?
Choose the logic that best supports forward momentum.
Weed out the logic that speculates, but to undermine the most likely options.
LOGIC OF NOW: Who should I be, how should I be working to represent my brand, and that of my employer? You could ask us not to read more into an activity, but you can not expect us to not try to find where we fit into the picture of an organization under change. What should I be in either likely scenario? What is required for us to be successful regardless of news. AND not to take the press to literally?
WEEDING UNPRODUCTIVE THOUGHT: "What can and must I do to stop this insanity?" Its difficult and getting bad. Should I give up? Did I stay too long?
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1 comment:
Those are really good questions to keep in mind with a new business.
Some advice from women's business network has been helping me out with business too.
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