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COVID-19: Resources and Toolkits to
We at The Clearing hope you, your family, and loved ones are doing well and managing in our collective new normal.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to be helpful.
Like many organizations, The Clearing is adapting how we operate and interact with one another and our clients. As we’re learning, we are documenting our successes and failures in order to add to our collective knowledge as a unified community.
Below you’ll find our current best thinking in the form of blogs and downloadable toolkits. We hope this information is helpful to your and your organization in this time of great uncertainty.
Remote Environment Toolkits
We facilitate thousands of meetings every year, both virtual and in person.
To support your work in the coming weeks, we consolidated our toolkit to give you access to our best practices on how to prepare technology, design remote sessions, manage remote meetings, and set communication boundaries with co-workers.
Click the buttons below to download your checklist today!
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A Leader’s Guide to Resilience
Explore six principles of resilience in this practical guide for leaders who are looking to increase resilience within their organization.
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Prep Your Tech
Take the first step to help ensure an impactful and engaging experience for both the participant and the facilitator by ensuring your technology is ready.
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Design Your Session
Prepare and design your remote session to ensure you are meeting and anticipating the needs of all your participants.
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Facilitate Virtually
Deliver your meeting with ease as you approach each session with this guided checklist. Additional tips and tricks provided!
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My User Guide
Set boundaries for yourself and your teammates around how to communicate and when to communicate to help establish a healthy work-life balance.
Resilience and How Leaders Navigate Disruptions
It can be lonely as a leader, especially right now during times of unprecedented disruption. In this blog, we explore the role of resilience in strengthening leadership and organizations in times of uncertainty.
Making Proactive Shifts During a Crisis
There is no doubt the effects of COVID-19 and the ensuing social isolation and movement restrictions have surprised and shocked people everywhere. Being proactive during this challenging time will help better prepare your organization and your customers for what may lie ahead. Our current situation is temporary but business as we know it will certainly look different in the coming months. Carving out time to think proactively now about what shifts you and your organization can make to meet new demands will position you powerfully for the future.
Cancel, Postpone, or Virtual: How to Make the Best Decision for Your Organization
Rapid movement to mandatory telework and the increase of event cancelations or postponements leave leaders in a difficult position: How do I successfully preserve the continuity of operations while respecting the wellbeing of staff operating in a fully remote environment? Learn how to make the best decision for your organization during COVID-19.
Create a Work Environment at Home
When The Clearing made the choice to institute mandatory telework in the wake of COVID-19, I was very anxious about staying productive in a 100% remote environment. I am no stranger to mobility, I work from a variety of locations(my home, client sites, or the office)regularly, based on my workload, meetings, and personal needs.
Leading From Afar: Three Leadership Principles Emerging from COVID-19
As our world continues to grapple with what’s happening around us, everyone, including leaders, struggle to keep up with rapidly evolving conditions. As organizations adjust to operating in virtual environments, three leadership principles emerge as reminders of how you can impact and lead your teams and organizations through uncertainty.
Team Building Activities for Virtual Teams
What is your personal workstyle? What commitments do you have that may impact working hours? These questions are even more relevant as we’re scrambling to understand how to balance a healthy home and work environment now that they’re in one space. It’s the perfect time to set boundaries with your team on how and when to communicate best with you.
I’m an Effective Leader. Why Don’t I Have the Answers?
You have diligently planned, prepared, and exercised. And yet your playbook doesn’t work today. Why? We’ve exceeded many organizations’ previous thinking capacity – exploding through the boundaries of anything the most experienced leaders have ever encountered. And yet you, and I, and we, must continue to lead.
From Our Founder, Chris McGoff
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Leading Through the Coronavirus Pandemic: Using the ‘Oh that Really Sucks’ Method
We are leading our people through a global crisis. In this series, we will explore leading through a pandemic. Part #1 will outfit you with the correct response to use when people share their fears and concerns with you, illuminating two common rookie errors to avoid.
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Leading Through the Coronavirus Pandemic Part 2: Creating Positive Context From Frightening Facts
Peak performance leaders understand that they have little control over the facts of this pandemic. What they do have is 100% control over how they contextualize those facts. With a continuous stream of information flowing from every radio, television, and internet connection, it’s critical to parse it all into facts, context, and beliefs.
“Technology now allows people to connect anytime, anywhere, to anyone in the world, from almost any device. This is dramatically changing the way people work, facilitating 24/7 collaboration with colleagues who are dispersed across time zones, countries, and continents. ”
– Michael Dell
About Us
The Clearing is a management consulting firm that helps organizations create peak performance cultures through strategy development, change management, and leadership training.
We help leaders create a solid cultural foundation, enabling your teams to execute shared services functions.
Our experienced consultants encourage, guide, and challenge our clients in equal measure. They are experts in a range of industries and domains and work collaboratively with clients to deliver measurable and lasting results.