Post- Crisis Leadership: How Leaders can Embrace Chaos

Abstract

Post-crisis leadership is a proactive approach where leaders must survey the internal and external environments to garner the trend of consumers buying behaviors. During this time, data analytics, re-energizing of sales and selecting a leadership style is crucial in beating your industry competitors. By reading this article, it will give leaders a new look on how to create marketing, and employee development strategies in defining their organizations. Strategic and tactical planning are key concepts needed to create internal activities for immediate implementation. Employees and leaders must work together to create a win-win situation for the consumer during these unprecedented times. This article will discuss several main theories. Those theories include: Customer Relationship Management, Four Functions of Management and Servant Leadership. In a post-crisis pandemic, leaders must learn how to plan, organize, lead and control. The planning phase leads managers to develop an overall strategy by selecting goals, allocating resources and determining success rates of the plans to improve the overall strategy of the organization. During the second phase, organizing determines the organizational structure for executing the plans, assigns authorities, defines resource allocations and details how well tasks will be organized. In the third phase, leading will identify those who will head the plan and manage all tasks during implementation. Controlling is the last phase where continuous monitoring occurs surrounding goals completions and interventions. Customer Relationship Management and Servant Leadership focus on strengthening relationships with your customers to determine what are the next steps in satisfying their buying behaviors. Leaders have to help customers get as much value from the product or service as they can. Organizations have to develop a meaningful partnership so the customer can generate revenue. Finally, leaders have to be proactive, develop long-term relationship bonding, demonstrate product/service value, and generate revenue.