#Weird May 7
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I have told several people the following:
“If you are not acting WEIRD in these WEIRD times you are WEIRD”
As a coach I really have tried to understand the nuances of organizational change. The fact of the matter is much of the change I have attempted to understand can be labeled as planned change. In leadership and coaching that is the most common type of adaptation you attempt to help a team navigate.
Yet COVID 19 brings with it a whole host of rapid, up in your face unplanned changes. When you are a coach, leader, parent, minister, teacher, or advisor you often are asked to help guide others with the unexpected. I don’t know about other leaders but the volume of unplanned changes in my life has made me feel nervous, anxious, inadequate, and WEIRD.
I have come to accept that I am not alone and it is okay to feel WEIRD. In fact I think making that as a confession might be therapeutic for the teams you lead.
One other factor of the pandemic is how to deal with the planned changes in light of the volume of unplanned. I have a friend and mentor who was very fond of the saying
“You can only have so much blood in the water before you are dealing with sharks”
His point was the volume of change with any individual or group had to be moderated. People and teams who experience large volumes of change in a concentrated time frame can become despondent, dysfunctional, irritated, and suffer all types of physical maladies. If you have planned changes for your team postpone them until you can deal with the back end of the pandemic.
It might seem WEIRD to delay but sometimes timing is everything.
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