6 leadership steps that may help people from corona - to trust and hope.
1)Survive
Good leaders help people to survive. Survive means to keep to the truths. Fake news and facts give little meaning and is to little help.
2)Safe
Safe, secure means to stick to stabile core values over time. Such core values are life, health and social security - and environment, health and safety. Some of the values are to be open, flexible and adaptable to shifting facts, shifting situations and shifting needs of people.
3)Compassion
Compassionate communication means to deep listen. Whan all are seen, heard, given a voice, and have fun together – they experience they are included.
4)Respect
Respect means leaders mutually accept people and people accept leader – as they are. Every human is more than they own and they do. Every person has potential we may not yet have seen.
5)Trust
Trust, legitimity, acceptance is something that develops over time. Leader obtains to win trust form people – when people feel they survive, they are safe while leaders are open to the needs of people, leaders give people a voice and see and hear them, leaders repect their people as they are. When all these steps happen – people feel they may relax and trust the leaders. They become willing and interested to follow. People believe in the way leaders propose.
6)Create common solutions and hope
Abraham Maslow proposed the theory that people need the 4 needs satisfied first: Survive, safe, compassion, respect. When these are satisfied, trust is emerging. First as people trust their leaders – they are ready and interested to unleash potential and self acualise. This is human’s 5th need. To co-create, go together, lift together and create something much greater than each of them. Corona, climate and biological diversity need solutions that are good and common for all. When leaders create trust and common solutions – people experience hope. Hope spreads enthusiasm. «Belief, hope and love. And above them is love.» - we may interprete that: Belief is to achieve trust – that gives hope. Above all this is love. People have to express more love to each others and to nature. Of course people also have to love themselves. But to only love myself without loving others and nature – becomes raw, unmature, unbalanced. Egoism, egocentric. People and nature need really more than that!
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Resources:
My book on creativity: Kreativ i ekstremvær:
https://www.helgechristie.com/butikk/helge-christies-15-bok-kreativ-i-ekstremvr-e-bok