REINTEGRATING TO THE NEW NORMAL
Going back to before is not an option.
Once the true impact of what we’ve been through is recognised, once it’s time to return to what there is, what then? It’s unlikely to be as easy as simply picking up where we left off. People don’t work like this and neither do the systems we live within. It will take time.
There will be the uncertain challenges of further waves of infection. There will be government decisions and shifts in supply and demand. Customers, clients and the workforce will have developed new patterns of behaviour, as will each of us.
When it’s time to implement a return and reintegration of people and ways of working, we’ll be faced with very human questions, such as
How do I work with the new expectations and requests?
Now it’s over, given what’s changed in me, how do I re -enter a very different world?
How have I been treated and what’s next for me?
How do I shape a space for authentic re-connection?
How do we make sense of what’s been learned and what that might mean?
What can help?
Think ahead -how this phase is managed and held will shape our relationships for a long time. We’ll need to step back and to think and sense our way, without simply jumping to what used to work or the complexity of what will need to be. faced and the psychological impact this will have.
Sustain the rhythm of connection
Make meaning and allow as many people as possible to influence the changes that will impact them.
Listen deeply
Build in agility–leaders particularly are going to be called on to let go and embrace new possibilities.
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