A Personal Message From Steve

Struggling with how best to lead your team during the COVID19 pandemic?

You may be aware that I led the Red Cross response to SARS. We deployed hundreds of volunteers and paid staff into what could have been an extraordinarily fearful situation.

Our team responded to the situation with class & style because, as leaders:

• • • We provided expert evidence-based advice and full disclosure of the risks to all our people.
    • We hosted daily telephone operational briefings where all personnel were encouraged to listen into
    • As the operations director, I invested my time by being visible and visiting frontline workers as much as possible.

If you lead your team through these tumultuous times and have any questions or need a friendly ear to bounce ideas off, just hit reply.

Or, if you want me to join your team – at no charge – through video or telephone, we can set up a call anytime.

Steve

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Webinars & Media Interviews

How will your organization survive COVID19? – 23 April

Leadership in Times of Crisis Steve’s Webinar for CPHR-AB – 21 April

Leading Beyond COVID Webinar – 9 April

COVID-19 Guidance and Resources 

Please note that the following external links are ‘evergreen’ and continually updated.

But understand that I can not guarantee that they contain the most current information.

MONITOR 

• • Website: Government of Alberta: COVID-19 information for Albertans 
  • Website: Government of Canada: COVID-19 Outbreak update
  • Website: Centre for Disease Control and Prevention: COVID-19 Resources
  • Website: World Health Organization: COVID-19 Updates

PREVENT

• • Actively encourage anyone who is feeling ill to stay home and away from others. 
  • Use and encourage good hygiene practices, such as frequent handwashing and avoiding touch. 
  • Consider additional social distancing measures, such as working remotely. 

• • Guidelines:CDC: Keeping your workplace, school, and home safe

PREPARE

• • Review or create a Business Continuity Plan for your organization, ensuring it contains: 
    • Processes to follow if an employee becomes ill;
    • Policies around travel;
    • Policies around sick leave;
    • How to mitigate risk so essential business functions can continue; and
    • Internal and external communications plans. 

• • Planning Tools: Business Continuity Handbook, Template, and Reference Guide 
  • Guidelines: Government of Canada: COVID-19 Travel Advice
  • Website: Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employees

RESPOND 

• • In Alberta, call Health Link at 8-1-1 for instructions if you, or a member of your team, are experiencing symptoms such as fever, cough, difficulty breathing and have travelled outside of Canada or were exposed to someone who has COVID-19.

• • Website: Alberta Health Link

RESOURCES