Are you feeling in at war time or peace time at your workplace?
Most management literature focuses on peacetime management, emphasizing long-term goals such as developing people and organizations. In peacetime, the focus is on making high-quality decisions and fostering creativity within the mission, as there is generally more time and resources available for these activities.
However, during a financial crisis or major business, industrial, or national emergency, decisions must be made swiftly and accurately. This is where wartime management techniques become essential. In such situations, managers often need to make quick, definitive, and high-quality decisions, sometimes at the expense of long-term organizational development.
At our basic managerial agenda, we expect our teams to perform at their best, demonstrate creativity and innovation, and collaborate effectively, even under uncertainty, heavy workloads, stress, and remote conditions. Achieving our goals and fulfilling the company's mission depends on this level of performance.
From my 20 years of managing and consulting experience, I have learned that a "wartime culture" is partly based on actual crises and partly on the belief that only a sense of urgency can motivate a team.
While this approach is effective in the short term, continuous stress, uncertainty, volatility, and heavy workloads require energy renewal strategies to keep teams focused, satisfied, motivated, and to prevent burnout.
It is not just about managing the workload but also about your ability to align everyone with the same goal—your goal, connecting team members with one another, even in distributed global, hybrid, and multicultural teams, and ensuring they trust you as their leader.
So, are managing wartime or peace time? is this reflects the facts or the organizational culture? or maybe it reflects your personal perception of reality.
If you find this post relevant or interesting, please feel free to comment with any questions you have on this topic, and I will do my best to share more insights based on my experience.
At the video: some peace time management development in the middle of a war time :)
Commentaires