By: Jennifer Openshaw
When you’re trying to manage through a crisis, there’s real power in knowing how to pivot. By pivoting, we’re talking about the ability to adapt quickly to the new environment so that you can still succeed or progress. This ability to pivot is essential whether you’re a working mom, a school principal or a corporate leader.
A few examples:
– You switch careers from banking to health care because there’s new demand. A friend did this – after someone pointed out the health care experience on his resume — and landed on his feet.
– You create a new product or service because the market has changed – Girls With Impact did a pivot by partnering with employees to provide a solution to their employees working from home and trying to manage kids at the same time.
– Like many of America’s school, you make a switch to behave in new ways – like shifting from in-person teaching to online delivery.
Of course, we all made the pivot to work from home (although for my team, that was nothing new!)
How else might you pivot amid COVID-19’s attack?
It might be as simple as guiding your children (and yourself) in new ways of connecting and building relationships. It might be re-thinking your career or the emerging needs your business can help address. Whatever the pivot is for you, know that that skill will take you far.
That’s my takeaway.
