There has never been a more important time to get organized and lead.
The impact of the Coronavirus has been sudden and far-reaching, and many businesses are not prepared for the long haul that this will be.
Are you?
Work has moved online. The boardroom is now in the cloud. With work-from-home mandates and corporate travel restrictions in place for the foreseeable future, we are just beginning the work of managing the impact of Coronavirus on our economy and our lives.
Leaders need to guide their response from a single place.
Cloud Concinnity® is the only comprehensive virtual mission control available that is designed around everything that top of house leadership needs.
Here are 10 Steps You Can Take Now to Get Organized and Lead During the Coronavirus Crisis
1. Embrace Long Term Crisis Management Mode
This is not a few days of travel delay. This is a marathon. This crisis is going to drag on. You need something built for the long haul, and we are just at the beginning. We don’t even know what this will look like as it develops, but we know this is going to hit us all hard. It’s going to ripple, and your team is going to need to get ready.
2. Begin Daily Planning Meetings for Coronavirus Contingency Planning
Your leadership is scattered across the country and likely working from home. The answer is not sporadic, long meetings. The answer is a daily virtual scrum where everyone on your leadership team can join a quick (virtual) morning huddle to explain what they’re working on and share resources, keeping everyone on the same page.
3. Upgrade Your Leadership’s Software Platform
Dial in meetings are nowhere near enough. You need to see each other. Video conferencing alone will not cut it. You need to be inside a cloud platform that can hold all of your files. Virtual meeting software alone is not enough. You need workflow automation integrated so everyone stays on the same page between meetings. Remember, this is for the long-haul, not for a day or two. And because you’re leadership, you need the highest security protocols in place to protect proprietary information. One of the things that makes Cloud Concinnity® so powerful is that we offer comprehensive and secure document storage inside the same cloud platform as video conferencing, process automation and meeting documentation. You only need one tool.
4. Get Everything Important Into The Cloud. Now.
Your leadership should be able to do as good of work from home as when they are in the office. The only way to do that is to get everything mission critical into the cloud, and make it available to everyone on your leadership team. With upgraded software, you can do that.
5. Make Your Virtual Meetings Great
You can’t cancel your board meeting - so what do you do instead? A comprehensive virtual mission control means everyone can be as effective and as present as they would have been in person. All the information they need in front of them. Totally secure. Logged and documented. And in a cloud platform that keeps everyone safe.
6. Be More Efficient. Period.
You don’t have time to not be efficient. Your distributed leadership team is even more distributed, and a crisis doesn’t wait. Using multiple software tools patch-worked together instead of a comprehensive solution means wasting time jumping back and forth between windows, fumbling for login information, and constantly asking each other where a certain file or message was. With Cloud Concinnity®, everything is always in the same place. Right where you need it.
7. Automate as Much Process as Possible
With everyone out of the office, the normal cadence of in-person “reminders” is gone. But you still need to keep your leadership team on track to sign documents, keep meetings, and generally stay on track. And everyone on your team is already stressed and operating in an unfamiliar environment from home. Make your software work for you by offering a comprehensive solution that lets your team automate workflows to reduce repetitive work and give everyone room to focus on strategy and crisis management.
8. Maintain Director Goodwill
Proactively streamlining work during the crisis and quarantine period will help keep everyone calm and on track. The last thing you need is people squabbling about which version of a document to use, or forgetting the details that used to be routine, or unhappy grumbling that goes unaddressed. Meet early, often, and in a comprehensive way to keep your virtual mission control team on point and happy. And nothing keeps a leadership team happier than not having to scramble for their information.
9. Increase Engagement
While it’s easy to think that working from home or a canceled board meeting means less work and less engagement, this kind of crisis is actually cause for the board and senior leadership to meet more often. Shorter, more frequent meetings in the cloud mean everyone on the team can stay agile and mobile, but still focused from wherever they are. That means better decisions and crisis management.
10. Learn From The Challenge
We will come out of this stronger than we were before. Leadership teams who root out and fix inefficiencies in order to navigate a crisis will find that there is no need to go back to those inefficiencies down the road when we are through this. Be aware, be nimble, and be ready to change. Learn from the challenge we are all being thrust into and get ready to come out the other side even better at what you do for your organization.
Cloud Concinnity® is the only comprehensive virtual mission control available that is designed around everything that top of house leadership needs.
It is the solution for leadership teams to who need a way to work together efficiently and effectively to navigate the Coronavirus crisis.
We can get you up and running in 24 hours.
And we are offering RAPID ONBOARDING for your board and senior leadership teams along with reduced onboarding fees.