Do you miss your friends?
Do you miss conferences?
Do you miss business travel?
Do you miss the serendipitous conversations in the elevator, corporate coffee shop, or walk from the car park to your office?
Do you miss the hand shake with your new potential customer?
Do you miss real life meetings where you can actually write on a real life whiteboard?
Do you miss the certainty of you future business?
What else do you miss?
Please don’t give me the well intentioned “but look at what we gained from lockdown...” responses — sure, there are upsides for some.
but.this.is.hard.
and before we celebrate how we have adapted, changed, evolved, and learned...
Take a moment to vent about what you miss.
Only then can you try and replicate it, replace it, or just grieve what you can’t have right now.
I get my energy from my family, friends, and my peloton.
We usually have a cocktail party on the evening of the last Friday of school. Instead this year I reluctantly converted it to a small zoom gathering. I was ready to no-show or cancel 5 minutes before, but my husband persuaded me otherwise.
It turned out far better than I imagined and I got the much needed energy boost from “seeing” dear friends.
Right now I am working on Virtual Sales Kick Off events, Marketing Strategy Workshops, Innovation Labs, Executive Leadership Forums, Sales Enablement Programs, Board Development, Digital Launch Events, Acquisitions, and Executive Team Coaching.
All of which is virtual.
There are unique ways you can radically change how you lead, adapt, and grow right now.
Let me know if you want a conversation to share ideas unique to your own executive leadership team.
Dedicated to growing your business,
Val
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