Organizational learning can serve as therapy during times of crisis.

During complex and uncertain times, as we are currently experiencing, the collective pain within the organization is strongly felt. As managers of tutoring training processes, we have the ability to provide support and offer learning materials that can benefit our organization's teams.

Written by: Yael Zeevi Kalomiti , Head of Training Department at Leave a Mark.

The reality we are living in is evolving rapidly. For years, there has been no true stability, and as training managers, we continue to reinvent ourselves and our expertise to provide content that can support our organization's teams, especially in challenging times.

During days of routine life, organizational learning serves as a nurturing hub for employees and managers alike. It's a place where they can comfortably come to grow and develop. Take advantage of this and be there for them by offering relevant content that can help the employees feel anchored and stable.

True, these days not everyone has the mental capacity for learning, but for those who do, this is the place for escapism and shelter. And sometimes, we can even provide content that can help coping with the situation.

Here are some recommendations we've prepared that can assist you during this time:

1. supply Managers with Coping Tools:

The Israeli reality isn't taught in management courses. Direct managers are dealing with sensitive and highly personal situations. Regardless of how many management courses they've taken, no one prepared them for this moment. Provide managers focused trainings on resilience, crisis management, listening and empathy skills, tools for delivering information, maintaining employee relationships, and more.

2. Inspiring Sympathetic Leaders:

Enlist key figures within the organization to deliver relevant content—CEOs, Vice Presidents, managers who can serve as personal examples of resilience, mental coping, and solidarity.

Even content that hasn't undergone extensive professional filming and editing can be valuable. Let it be relevant content that can benefit our people.

3. Consider What Can Assist Your People:

Videos available to watch at convenient times, addressing topics like stress relief, mental resilience, coping with psychological stress, communication with children, productive time management during crises, building adaptability, and more.

4. Not Only for Organizational Teams:

Especially during this time, offer virtual activities and content for employees' families—age-appropriate, enriching, and joyful content for children. Content that allows employees a small escape from the challenging reality.

This isn't the time to demand learning. It's the time to provide diverse options and, above all, content for coping with the situation. Our role as training managers is to provide the necessary variety for these challenging days and above all to always be a supportive ear, and let the employees know we are here for them.?

5. Virtual Forums and Working Groups:

Set up platforms for guided discussions, collaboration, and online contributions. This way, employees will feel connected and experience organizational support. The ability to share with others, ask questions, and receive much-needed support is crucial.

6. Ask Your Team:

Seek openness from the team and ask them which content would help them at this time??What can assist them and their families?? Try to identify experts and content that can meet the teams' needs.

7. Psychological Support System:

Offer access to counseling and psychological, emotional, and social support for both groups and individuals. We're here for you, for consultation, assistance, and joint reflection. May we all have better and safer days ahead.\

Yours sincerely,

The Leave a Mark Training Team