How Do I Stay Motivated After Surviving Layoffs?

Coaching Real Leaders

Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

Executive, Business/careers, Leadership, Careers, Business/management, Sessions, Hbr, Coaching, Review, Society & Culture, C-suite, Leaders, Harvard, Business, Management

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

She’s finally found a leadership role that feels aligned with her personal mission. But in the wake of unexpected company-wide layoffs, she’s struggling with how to plan for her team’s future amid the organizational uncertainty. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches her through how she can motivate and lead her team when so much feels out of their control.

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0:00.0	I'm Muriel Wilkins and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR podcast network.
0:12.4	I'm a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful leaders who've hit a bump in the road.
0:18.4	My job is to help them get over that bump by clarifying their goals
0:21.8	and figuring out a way to reach them so that hopefully they can lead with a little more ease.
0:26.7	I typically work with clients over the course of several months, but on this show, we have a
0:31.5	one-time coaching meeting focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing.
0:41.9	Thank you. on a specific leadership challenge they're facing. Today's guest is someone will call Melissa
0:44.1	to protect her confidentiality.
0:46.5	She has a background in leading strategic programs
0:48.8	and joined the large tech company a few years ago
0:51.2	and then quickly shifted roles within that organization.
0:55.0	I was very, very fortunate to find a role that not only fit my skill set, but fit where I was in my life at that moment and where I wanted to be from a passion perspective and a personal mission perspective. So it gave me the opportunity
1:12.1	to unify my passion and my mission. Melissa now uses her skill set to build community within
1:19.0	her organization and she feels a strong connection to her purpose in this role. I really, really
1:24.1	wanted to share my knowledge with others, learn from others, and create a community that supported each other from a professional perspective.
1:32.9	Even if there starts when not what they imagined, even if they had been through multiple setbacks in their lives,
1:39.6	I wanted us to all be successful and thrive together and be successful in what we do.
1:46.0	But she, like many others right now, is feeling a little uneasy because of circumstances beyond her control.
1:52.0	As we meet for our coaching session, we're in the midst of an economic downturn, and many companies are drastically downsizing.
1:59.0	Melissa's company also recently announced some pretty
2:01.8	massive layoffs and it's weighing on her. I work for a company where we thought we will not
2:07.4	be impacted and then come to find out we are not. We were not in a place where we could assume
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