Conversations or expectation re-sets with clients around the “reality of 2020”?
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Other than a brief mention of “crazy times” at the beginning of your zoom call, we all march on as if nothing is wrong. As if our people aren’t overwhelmed, in despair, angry, sad. We are selling creative and strategic thinking by people who can barely think straight some days. Project management by people who struggle to manage their home/work responsibility. Financial mgt by people struggling with financial impact on the economy, their partners and family/friends laid off, struggling to pay bills.
Working long days to grow our clients profits when we’d rather be marching in the streets.

How do we stay human? How do we say I AM HUMAN. I am not 100%. I am not ok. I can’t march on as if nothing is wrong. How do we say time out. Something has to give.

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