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How to Lead When your Team is Exhausted, and you are too
While everything might be okay on the surface, the individual stakeholders of businesses
may be experiencing a lack of adequate drive, determination, and agency, especially in the
current times characterized by a pandemic. Unfortunately, the negative feeling was evident in
other leaders and managers in the organization, causing a wave of incidences of emotions, stress,
and reaction (Wedell-Wedellsborg, 2020). The feeling had been referred to as pandemic fatigue,
among other terms. This was the reason many leaders are encouraged to establish and manage
their resilience as a guide to the wavering hope of subjects in organizations.
Different from the characterized adrenaline-driven performance after the summer, the
impending second wave of the pandemic has been associated with the need for enhanced
personal resilience. A psychological response, called arousal, characterized the resilience of the
first wave of the pandemic. On the other hand, the second wave is characterized by a personal
resilience known as psychological stamina, where the ability of an individual to maintain
strength and performance in business is made up of personal history and experiences. In the
second wave, the leader will require stamina as there is increased boredom and disconnection
from work duties. Therefore, the leader needs to increase perseverance, defiance, and endurance.
This is the reason why he/she should understand the need for urgency and importance by
avoiding the temptation of becoming short-cited due to the existing pandemic. However, short-
sightedness means pushing aside everything that is not urgent and focusing the little energy we
have in managing the organization. The leader can, therefore, balance compassion and
containment as a way of ensuring both the leader, at an individual level, and the employees are
motivated to put in more effort in the organization. The final step the leaders can take is
energizing everyone, every day. This is where the difficulty in sustaining one's energy and

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patience is key to ensuring the employees are also patient and hopeful in working towards
finishing the last mile of the pandemic.

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References
Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg, (2020). How to Lead When Your Team Is Exhausted — and You
Are, Too. Harvard Business Review. (2021). Retrieved 27 January 2021, from
https://hbr.org/2020/12/how-to-lead-when-your-team-is-exhausted-and-you-are-too.