The 3 Questions Your Leadership Must Answer During Quarantine
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As the COVID-19 crisis upends business norms, we all must adapt. This new normal requires fast, effective decisions to be made by teams that are forced to do their work while far apart. When the only way to connect is digitally, we must do so intentionally and efficiently.
Here are three questions leaders must ask now to lead successfully during quarantine.
1. ACCESS: How are we providing decision makers with secure access to what they need?
The COVID-19 crisis has pushed almost everyone into remote work — and fast. Many leadership teams quickly jumped into using a mix of separate video conferencing, messaging and document storage apps or software. While this can be a good stop-gap measure, unfortunately, these kinds of patchwork solutions can also leave your team vulnerable to cyber-risk. So how can leaders have access to materials and communicate with each other in a secure way?
Access in a virtual world is strongest when it lives in the cloud and brings together key functions under one umbrella. Using software that securely manages document storage, video and text communication means all levels of access are protected and streamlined. A recent publication from Stanford takes a deep dive into how leaders need broad access to make fully informed decisions, and we agree. That’s why we built software around the idea of full-featured, streamlined access.
Cloud Concinnity® makes access simple and protected by putting information and communications sharing under the same security umbrella.
2. PROCESS: How must we adapt our processes to the world of remote management?
Changing routines during the best of times is hard. During a crisis is even harder. One of the biggest factors is preserving process control while and adapting to the virtual world. Much of what needs to happen is the same as it was before this crisis — but many of the methods for making it happen must change. The answer is for deliverables to be centralized and documented. Process that lives on a single, secure hub in the cloud.
Process can be a strong anchor for leadership teams. Process on a centralized platform places key steps front and center for everyone who needs to take them, baking efficiency into the way forward. When possible, having software that can automate pieces of that process can go a long way toward keeping the gears of leadership and governance moving — even when the people responsible are spread out.
Cloud Concinnity® controls and drives your key processes via a centralized leadership hub, adding to the umbrella of access. It makes replacing walks down the hall, meetings, spreadsheets and other ad hoc activity with software management tools a piece of cake. Pre-built, customizable workflows and tasks for the management of key activities ensures your team won’t miss a step. You’ll never go back, even after you go back to the office.
3. OUTCOMES: Do we have a simple way to track and elevate key issues and outcomes?
Tracking outcomes is harder when everyone is spread out and remote. When everyone was at the office, leaders had the luxury of walking down the hallway and asking for clarification. Now, they need to be able to click through and find out for themselves. Luckily, cloud software is exactly the right tool to do that. But for some reason, there are no other communication and process tools out there that also track results in a simple way.
Outcomes on a single, at-a-glance dashboard seems like an obvious solution to us. Leaders need to a way to see what is going well, what is going poorly, and deep dive into what needs attention. So why are digital tools not built this way? We don’t know. We only know that we have solved this problem for you. And it won’t drive you crazy anymore.
Cloud Concinnity® frames your outcome tracking on a single, secure dashboard for at-a-glance and audit-ready data.
In Conclusion
Access. Process. Outcomes.
We think software for making mission critical leadership decisions should do everything your leadership team is expected to do. Especially during quarantine.
Access to information, Process certainty, and Outcomes tracking.
Cloud Concinnity® does what no other software out there will.
Built by leadership and governance experts for high performance in any situation. Crisis included.