Managing a team during uncertain times: effective leadership in a crisis

A crisis may affect different teams differently. For a sales team, it might be a drop in sales, for an event management team a pandemic like Covid-19 that cancels all social events, for any other team the fact the company was bought by a new mother company, causing uncertainty. One thing is certain: a crisis reveals the true qualities of a team manager. The manager is the one who needs to calm the team down and lead them through the crisis in the most effective way. Here are some tips on how this is done.