How To Manage Your Team Through A Crisis ; Football, it's a funny old game. For most of us, Christmas is a time for putting our feet up and forgetting about the stresses and strains of our work lives. Not for the humble football manager however. The UK is unique among European football leagues by not having a winter break, and the festive period is one of the most congested periods in the footballing calendar. That may well be great for the armchair fan, but for the unlucky manager whose team doesn't have the best of Christmases it can mean an early bath.
Off the back of another eventful festive campaign there are a number of premier league managers who may fear a phone call this morning and in a highly competitive world with so much riding on each game, even the best managers can find themselves in trouble if the results don't go their way.Although not quite so public and open to scrutiny, managers in every industry face similar pressures to succeed in all walks of life. Everything can't always go according to plan and even the best of us will face set backs, so what should you do if you find the wheels are starting to come off?
Hopefully you will have more time to rectify the situation than the average Premiership manager, so here's a few hints to help you on your quest for disaster aversion:
Keep Calm & Carry On!
Nothing makes a bad situation worse than panicking about it. Be rational, clear thinking and assertive, running around and flapping about it isn't going to help.
Analyse & Learn
It's not the disaster that counts as much as the recovery, and being seen to take on board what has gone wrong and put it right is a huge part of your disaster recovery. Football managers may not get the time to do this but not every industry is as cutthroat as the average Premier League team.
Keep Your Staff Onside
When things go wrong you need everyone to pull together to get it right. Keeping your staff onside is vital if you are to overcome the bumps along the road, and motivational tools and incentives such as corporate gifts can be an effective way of making sure they are up for the challenge.
Luckily the management world doesn't always have to run in the same way as it does in football, and if problems do crop up along the way then the chances are you will get more than enough time to sort them out.
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