How To Keep Working During Personal Hardship by Christine Comaford

Christine Comaford is a leadership strategist and writes about leveraging neuroscience to create remarkable leadership.  In this Forbes article she explains some tactics for leaders and employees to use to navigate a hardship while keeping your job.  Some of these tactics can be linked with the 5 stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) originally proposed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book On Death and Dying to help employees come to terms and acceptance with the hardship.  It is important to realize everyone handles hardships and grief differently and on different timelines.  Its important for leaders and managers to create an environment where employees are comfortable and feel okay reaching out when needed.  Many companies offer employee assistance programs for free but employees are too nervous to use them for fear of hindering reputation or career advancements along with trust that the meetings won’t be used against them.  She ends by explaining some passages can result in knowledge gained and be a transformative time. Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinecomaford/2019/09/10/how-to-keep-working-during-personal-hardship/#66ee8df47598