The last years, we confronted to a general crisis. The economic markets were down, the future became uncertain. As a business manager, you are stress by a lot of different factors. Inside your enterprise, you need to manage team, her productivity and her questions, in despite the fact you aren't in the best mood to do something like that. But don't worry ! A crisis isn't the end of your company, it's a new beginning !
Understand the opportunity hiding behind the rise
Firstly, you need to know the most important thing : a crisis isn't eternal and will be finish one day. The second highpoint is the fact that this situation isn't the product of the fate or the destiny : it's only the results of missing management or innovations. A downturn presents only a new challenge to be raised !
Yes, at first, you're scary. You ask maybe What do I do ? How will my future be ? How announce the problems to my employees or my family ? In this period, you can denied the responsibility and the reality of the situation. You was always successful, your company was flourishing, so why would it have some problems ? It isn't possible !
Secondly, you will negotiate with yourself or with some God. You will promise the whole universe just to save a part of your business. Maybe you will envisage to sell your soul to the devil to kept your loved enterprise.
After this phases, you will start to understand the whole situation. It's the acceptation. You will realize concretely the problems and start to find real solutions. You will begin to fight the crisis and attempt to change the patterns or the sources of the troubles.
Here you are the most important step to change and save your business : the action.
Solution = Action : The Step-by-step Guideline To Change The Crisis In An Opportunity
When you have to outcome to a trouble, the focus must be to your reaction. You want to save your business ? Come on, move yourself and change the patterns ! The faster you take your responsibilities, the faster you limit the consequences (positives or negatives) of the crisis.
Here they are the indispensable steps to do the complete transformation.
1. Confront to the reality and accept the truth
The problem is here and deny his existence will not disappear it. Take your brave and do a real balance sheet of the economic situation.
2. Anticipate the crisis to prevent them
As a popular adage, the best defense is attack. The best way to impeach the realization of a problem is to do your best to stop its coming. If there are no crisis, it's because you have use the best mechanisms to prevent them !
3. Don't react on impulse
When we are confronted to a contrariness situation, we take some unreflected decisions. Take time to take a breath, to do some reflexions and to resolve quietly the problems.
4. Ask some help
Asking for some help isn't a shame, it's a proof of brave. When you're a manager, you need to surround yourself with the best person. Don't hesitate to share with some employees or coworkers the hard situation. Maybe someone has or is the solution !
5. Fix entirely the problems
None is worth as to fix half of one problem. It's just postpone the moment where the situation will be explosive and ungovernable. Take a problem and resolve him for ever.
6. Communicate again and again
The best way to improve the confidence and the motivation of your team is to communication with them. See his boss to be anxious and stress is more unproductive as know the real situation. If you need to speak to client or group of people, tell the truth as soon as possible.
7. Think to the future
Sometimes, we take decisions in function of the present moment. At these moment, we think that this decision is the better we can do. But sometimes, the future repercussions are worse as the solution. Before to fire an employee, reflex about his utility to your company. Maybe it's less expansive to fire it now, but you must need of its abilities in several months...
Use the same perspective vision to take the good decision
Remember a crisis isn't the end of your business but a new way to transform and improve your company !