A Touching Nature Moment

𝗔 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧

Humans are not the only animals who grieve when experiencing the impacts of personal or organizational change and loss.

I caught this incredibly touching moment when a dove flew into our glass patio door, and its mate realized it had lost its partner.  I captured a minute of the experience that lasted 30 minutes.

What does this have to do with business and leadership?

𝙁𝘼𝘾𝙏 -Any emotionally significant event perceived to be life-altering and permanent causes a person to “grieve”

𝙁𝘼𝘾𝙏 -At least 1 in 4 people are grieving at work daily (Grief Recovery Institute study)

𝙁𝘼𝘾𝙏 -Grief in the workplace costs companies $100B annually in lost productivity (Grief Recovery Institute study)

𝙁𝘼𝘾𝙏 -leaders are never trained to navigate the emotions of personal and organizational change

What’s a leader to do? – CARE(s)

Courage-have the courage to lead with compassion and empathy

Adapt-proactively adapt your leadership approach and work process based on the support your people

Recognize-the awkward and uncomfortable emotional elephant in the room is grief

Engage-early and don’t wait for performance issues to surface

Share-the support plan with your team; they will want to help but not know how

𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀™- “𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘕𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘖𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦”

Anthony Casablanca

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