Additional Resources

Great leadership is rare and yet, crucial—especially when facing unprecedented times like today’s pandemic. As Peter Lichtenthal, author of Chapter 2, states,

“People want great leaders at all times for support, for information, for vision and decisions, for motivation, and for a sense of belonging.”

As all of us strive to improve our leadership capabilities and provide impactful and supportive communications in response to times of crisis such as COVID-19, it’s often helpful to see how others have offered honest, hopeful, empathic, and inspiring messages. We offer the following as just a few examples of great leadership communications:

We invite you to share other great examples that you’ve seen. Please email us at info@mynextseason.com with leadership communications that you feel are exemplary. We’d love to see them and share them with others.

No part of life is left untouched by the pandemic, including your career. As Leslie Braksick shares in Chapter 6,

“Whether chosen or unchosen, your job and career trajectory may look very different than it did before the coronavirus came to the scene. There is no playbook for navigating your career during and after a global pandemic crisis.”

It can be intimidating and difficult to move forward intentionally following a crisis, so we’ve compiled additional articles and worksheets to help you be thoughtful and intentional during this time of transition.

Choosing Your Next Season Worksheet (PDF)
Preparing For Your Next Season (PDF)
Time Is All We Have, So Please Use It Well (PDF)

stock-photo-young-man-reading-a-book-in-the-park-619996577.png — Reflections

For Your Next Season

The essentials for transition include companionship, health, and an openness to a new purpose. Below are articles to help you dive further into these essentials in order to come out successfully on the other side of this transition.

Partner Model (PDF)
What’s Your Encore (PDF)

Our work at My Next Season supports clients in rebranding efforts through a variety of tools and resources. Many of those are referenced throughout Chapter 8, Moving Into Your Next Season, and can be found below.

“Your mindset coming out of this pandemic offers an opportunity to recalibrate and align your life and career. . . . As your ideas of what change looks like take shape, rebranding may be necessary to make these ideas a reality.”