Remaining Resilient: Resources to Help You Stay Purposeful in a Pandemic
COVID-19 was easily the most unanticipated and unwelcome disruption of recent times.
While immediate health risks have lessened, the challenges and adjustments we faced continue to resonate today with remote work now a permanent fixture for many. People With Purpose has compiled a range of resources and tools support you during this ongoing period of change.
We encourage you to explore these resources to help navigate the evolving shifts in your professional and personal lives.
Understanding the Coronavirus
Information on COVID-19 is readily available, but is it helpful, complete, or accurate? These links will help people learn more about the virus, how it stacks up against other pandemics and would like access to other resources to keep you informed:
The 7 Best COVID-19 Resources We’ve Discovered So Far - by Visual Capitalist
Awesome COVID-19 resources - by GitHub
Coronavirus is our Future - TED Talk by Alanna Shaikh | TEDxSMU
Ensuring Business Continuity and Resilience
Business, as usual, is not an option at the moment; remaining resilient is certainly top of mind. Written recently in response to COVID-19, these links provide practical advice to business owners and managers from the lens of purpose, law, and leadership, respectively.
COVID-19 and Corporate Purpose—Four Ways Businesses Can Respond Now by Greg Hills for FSG
Don’t Hide Bad News in Times of Crisis by Amy C. Edmondson for HBR
COVID-19 Innovations by Trend Watching and Business of Purpose
Maintaining Personal Resilience
A personal purpose is an anchor in times of uncertainty, but a little encouragement can go a long way. These authors are sympathetic to purpose and experts in personal resilience, offering a number of practical steps to maintain your wellbeing at this time:
Don’t Let Uncertainty Paralyze You by Harvard Business Review
Double Down on Your Practices During Uncertainty by Conscious Leadership Group
Coping During COVID-19—How to Stay Happier and Calmer in Difficult Times by Gretchen Rubin
Coping with the Coronavirus: A Strengths Perspective by Dr. Ryan Niemiec, Via Institute on Character
Keeping your brain healthy during these challenging times from BrainHQ from from Posit Science
Working Remotely
Technology that enables remote working has already transformed the way teams interact, but it is becoming essential during these periods of social distancing and quarantine. Remote working pioneers Trello have a number of articles that address many common concerns, from setting up a work-from-home policy to managing your team remotely and battling with Impostor Syndrome, while the HBR article offers five simple rules that ensure your remote meetings are successful.
The Practical Guide to Working from Home as a Team by Amanda Athuraliya for Creately
Working From Home? 12 Guides To Help Navigate The Remote Life by Eric Ehlers
How to Get People to Actually Participate in Virtual Meetings by Justin Hale and Joseph Grenny for Harvard Business Review
The 2020 Complete Guide to Remote Work and Finding Remote Work by Andrei Kurtuy for Novoresume
Purposeful Possibilities
While the world is in crisis and will never be the same again, there are signs of new beginnings, hinting at a world that can be better than before, if done purposefully:
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business by Dina Gerdeman for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
Purpose vs. Coronavirus Kate Shattuck, Jane Stevenson, and Divina Gamble for Korn Ferry
Capitalism Meets Coronavirus: How Companies Are Responding by Just Capital
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