5 Lockdown Challenges for Managers and Leaders

Great planning, leadership, communication, adaptability and awesome commitment from colleagues in all roles, has meant that, at Fuel Learning, we have been in a strong position to continue to deliver ‘World Class’ development for our clients and learners.

We have all genetically developed ‘square eyes’ but the valuable ‘VIRTUAL’ interactions that we have had with great people over the past year, have helped to highlight many challenges and solutions to managing and leading teams through these unprecedented times.

You may be facing similar challenges, so hopefully this will give you food for thought.

ISOLATION – De-motivating for many and causes a sense of loneliness or disconnection with colleagues and the organisation. This proves particularly challenging for the EXTRAVERTS and SUNSHINE YELLOW people in your team.

INFORMATION SHARING – Another major challenge. Insufficient updates (or too many)? Duplication, confusion or lack of clarity, taking much longer than usual to access information. The age old issue of ‘somebody, anybody, nobody’ completing tasks.

MANAGER EMPATHY – “You don’t know what it’s like for me at the moment!” Recent CMI research ‘Management Transformed: Managing in a Marathon Crisis’ revealed 72% of employees ranked WELLBEING in the Top 5 roles managers currently need to play.

GUIDANCE – What am I supposed to be doing? Why? How? When? Who for? To what standard?

DISTRACTIONS – With kids, partners, pets, amongst other things, finding space to work can often be difficult. 

Tough? Yes!