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Post COVID Leadership article talks about the key traits a - possess the right skills to

understand these opportunities, and
leader should possess to embrace
6 crucial leadership skills to manage post-COVID-19 changes the situation and move forward. act fast to manage the change

The current situation has indeed - condition their mind to manage

created several opportunities for the situation being physically and

leaders along with challenges. To mentally strong

seize these opportunities, leaders
- pave ways for their employees,
must
followers to mitigate the risk caused

by the crisis

Sudiptaa Paul Choudhury Here're six leadership skills that are crucial for you as

leaders to acquire, and implement:
Sudiptaa Paul Choudhury, an Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta topper and alumnus, is a global
communicative marketing and strategy leader, consultant, coach and writer with 16+ years of extensive
experience in B2B2C (IT, Internet, Retail, Banking, Telecom and many others) industry. She has held several 1. Being visionary & strategic –
leadership positions in many MNCs such as: EMC, Hewlett Packard, Ericsson, Oracle, Tally Solutions and Intuit. At
present, she is working as an 'Independent Sr. Consultant' and a 'strategic partner' to a marketing rm, Media
Nurture. She is also a mother and an entrepreneur. Should you have any queries on the above article, feel free to Invest 10-20% of your time on a weekly basis now onwards to envisage what
reach her at LinkedIn .
you could do and will be doing eventually by deploying a solid strategic
T he Coronavirus crisis has Along with health crisis, business framework. It will guide you, your employees, and the organization during

the crisis, post-crisis and for the new normal (inspired by Mint Minzberg's 5Ps,
leaders are facing several other
created a VUCA world (V:
courtesy: HBR)
vulnerable, U: uncertain,
demand, supply chain issues,
C: complex and A: ambiguous) for challenges such as drop in customer 5Ps are:
us. Every sector of developing & government's restrictions or new

developed economies is severely rules to manage the pandemic, - position yourself in the market (understand market and tech trends,

impacted by the pandemic. People recession, and unemployment. regulations in your industry, customer's needs and challenges, and

across the world are feeling Now, what do you think a leader

worried, stressed and panicked. should do at this time? The short