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What Great Leaders Did During the Pandemic That Will Continue to Make Them Successful

Steven Hopper
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5 min readJan 3, 2021

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Being a leader in the world of remote work is a challenging job. Remote work upended the way that most individuals perform their daily job and likewise leaders had to quickly to re-think how they should support their people.

One of the keys to successful leadership is building trust with your people, and how leaders do this looks differently in person versus through a computer screen.

“Employees in high-trust organizations are more productive, have more energy at work, collaborate better with their colleagues, and stay with their employers longer than people working at low-trust companies.” — Harvard Business Review

The leaders who have thrived during the pandemic understood this fact right away and adapted their leadership style to build even stronger, more resilient teams.

And regardless of the future of work, there are five things that successful leaders did during the pandemic that are here to stay.

1. They re-defined “productivity.”

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Steven Hopper
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Written by Steven Hopper

Stories of a former high school teacher, now business consultant. Husband. Travel fanatic. Obsessed coffee drinker. And all-around nerd.

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