How to lead when you’re going through a personal crisis

As a leader, it’s easy to minimize the personal crises we’re going through.

We’re typically the support system for the individuals on our team, usually their first line of support at work. We’re acutely aware of the different crises these individuals are going through, so when one of our own pops up, we’re desensitized. We minimize. We forget to give ourselves permission to feel sorrow. We struggle to write an article on leading through a personal crisis because we ask ourselves, ‘are we really going through a crisis? Is it enough of a crisis?’

But sorrow is heavy.

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