The Top 7 Ways of Leading Effectively During Difficult Times

“Tough times never last but tough people do” Robert Schuller

As it is, leadership can be a very complex and difficult task. Now, how about coming to lead during difficult times? Imagine leadership as a difficult task it is already, how much more leading during difficult times?

Leadership is an art. Done well it can open doors that no man can be able to shut. So, as we all know that life is cyclic, how can one lead effectively during tough times? The night is followed by the day. Winter is followed by summer.

Life is seasonal. There are good times as well as bad times. Now, what can one do to lead effectively when times are tough? Let’s find out. The top 7 ways of leading effectively during difficult times are:

• Show up and be active in the public

This is definitely not a time of hiding. This is the proper time of extending your presence to the public. When times are tough, people tend to feel ashamed and as a result, they hide. Hiding shows and indicates fear and cowdery. A leader must not she away nor fear away when times are tough.

As I have said before, life is seasonal. Today is cold and tomorrow it’s hot. A leader must understand this facts and not feel ashamed.

A leader must maintain a serious external presence during this times. This is the proper time for a leader to come out and show what they are made of.

This is the time to be more active to avoid overthinking that can lead to depression and panic attacks. A leader should not be alone during this times. They must go out and lead boldly.

Hiding would be a very dangerous mistake a leader can commit at this moment. If you maintain an external presence, you will experience and learn the things that can further enhance your leadership.

• Positivity

It is not easy, yes but for the sake of the mission and goal you have, remain positive. This is not the time of entertaining bad news and negative information. Remain positive as you go through this important phase of your life.

When you are positive, you will then have the strength to keep going. Positivity will then help you focus. You will then remain hopeful till this dark season ends. Afterall, it’s just a season.

Life is seasonal. Also try to monitor and control what comes to your mind. Only be surrounded with positivity. Remain positive that things will change and will breakthrough to the other side of the fence.

Should you be negative, you will have defeated yourself. Negativity cripples and kills the sense of movement. Indulge in positivity and you will do well.

If you are negative, those you are leading will pick this up and you won’t go anywhere. You might have then defeated your course.

• Focus on your mission

Each and every leader needs a very strong mission in order to function effectively and successfully. Do you even have a mission? What is your mission? So, in difficult times, your understanding of your mission will be tested severely.

Stronger missions tend to be the rod and stuff that keeps you going during this times. Your mission will tend to keep you during this times. Also, this is not the time of forgetting your mission.

Your mission is there to carry you in times and moments like this. Be about your mission. Be absorbed in your mission and this times won’t really have any effect on you.

• Teamwork makes the dream work

Now let’s settle this as early as now, you need people as a leader. Yow won’t do leadership alone. Leadership is like a romantic relationship, it’s indeed a team sport. That is why in a soccer match it’s eleven against eleven.

Those people are there in order to work together for the sake of the team. No man is an ireland. Together we can.

This is the time to draw so much strength from your team. By the way, team members must be people who are stronger and better than you. You can’t give what you don’t have.

Invest heavily in your team. Your team will then carry you out during this difficult times. Embrace your team. Team work must be one of your important pillars during this times. Lean on your team and you won’t see this times.

• Maintain Your focus

During difficult times, it will really help you to maintain focus as a leader. Many things will try to throw you off course but remain focused.

Never let whatever happens during this times drive you away from what you know you have to do.

During difficult times, focus is key. Focus will really help you navigate through the turbulent times. Without focus, your course will be useless.

If you are a leader, focus must be your best friend. Focus needs to be your partner in crime.

• Embrace creativity

Difficult times calls for different measures. As things are changing, creativity needs to be like an uncle in the family. When times are bad, things change and creativity have to facilitate such a change.

Great creations and developments must come as the old tricks cannot really serve the times.

Allow your creative juices to flow when the times are tough. Let your mind go to work. This is the time of implementing the great ideas hidden under the bed.

This is the time of unveiling new creations to serve the current events and conditions. Make creativity your cousin during the tough times.

• Take more risks

Have blind faith and take risks. This is the proper time of walking by faith and not by sight. Allow the spirit of faith to carry you through. Faith goes along with hope.

These are great partners. They are like siblings. They are like what head is to a tail in a coal.

Faith hardly functions without hope. Where there is the other, you will definitely get the other one. Keep your faith strong. Keep and strengthen your hope because you will need it.

Without faith, difficult times feels like forever. Let faith be your guide and hope your friend. With these 2 powerful tools, you will be able to wither any manner of storm. You will ride the storms just like an eagle.

An eagle faces so much wind in the air but it always breakthroughs. Be like an eagle. Embrace an attitude of an eagle. When you operate and function like an eagle, the best is yet to come.

Conclusion

We have discussed the ways in which you can navigate through difficult times as a leader. If you can allow yourself to follow the above mentioned ways, you will really soar like an eagle during difficult times.

You will indeed laugh at your problems. For the last time, what are the top ways of leading effectively during difficult times? Here are they:

1. Show up and be active in the public
2. Positivity
3. Focus on your mission
4. Teamwork makes the dream work
5. Maintain your focus
6. Embrace creativity
7. Take more risks

We have come to the end of our road today. I hope you have learned how you can better navigate through the dark times as a leader. Till we meet again in the next post. Peace.