“Psychologically, we all have long COVID by this point,” says Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, an assistant professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School in her new research. Although some of us may not have been directly affected by the virus itself, not a single person has been able to escape the long term psychological stress. So how do we thrive - and work - through these times?
We would all like to think that we are learning and improving through our (many) failures over the past few years, but Ms. Eskreis-Winkler’s research says otherwise. Because failures, especially repeated failures, threaten our egos, “People often choose to disengage. They choose not to attend to their failures, and as a result, they learn very little.”
Many of us are experiencing these setbacks on an almost daily basis. This kind of experience does not lead to the resiliency we all need right now. The good news is, leadership can take steps to create a work culture that embodies a ‘growth mindset’, and lives up to the resiliency goals we all aspire to. Check out Kellogg’s new article featuring this new research, and what leadership can do to help change the perspective.