Your Worse Case Scenario
You probably know of the practice of writing a future press release to visualize and launch a new capability,
But have you ever thought about a future press release
describing your greatest worse case scenario?
What’s the event? How’s it handled? What’s the outcome?
A stoic approach to anxiety uses negative visualization; actively examining, staring fear in its face.
Considering potential misfortunes in your business now, helps you navigate the shock if/when they happen. Traditional BCP plans, are designed to be reactionary; be prepared with a plan to react.
This exercise is proactive.
Writing the press release can help you and the team move forward without being paralyzed by fear. Be better able to handle an evolving market, bad business relationship, data breach. To set you up for responsiveness, understanding the differences of events vs our perception of them, to control the narrative, respond with calmness. Allowing the team to use another stoic practice: flipping the obstacle, which creates a lens to see obstacles as opportunities.
So what is your worse case scenario?
Thank you Deborah Reuben, CLFP who flipped my thinking in a conversation this week, and Susan Auer, MA for the connection.
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