The horrible news out of Virginia Tech has captured all of us. For us at MindLeaders, being from a college town ourselves, our hearts, thoughts, and prayers go to everyone at Virginia Tech and to the families and friends who have been impacted by this terrible shooting.
Personally, in times of any kind of crisis, I start looking for things I can do. There's not a lot that most of us who aren't in Virginia or taking care of family can do to directly help this tragedy. But as the leaders and teachers of our organizations, we can help out at home. What emergency planning do you have in place in your organization? Do you have a way for people to reach out for help if they're troubled or know of a colleague who is? If the policies are in place, when's the last time everyone in your organization heard about them?
If you want to shake things up and do something because of these shocking events, think about your organization's emergency planning. Not even just for a security emergency - what about weather emergencies, or ways to contact the workforce if something happened off-hours that they should know about before coming in to work? Emergency policies need to be communicated, and as knowledge leaders in our organizations, we're in a great position to spread not just career skills, but vital organizational information, too.
We can't prevent tragedies. But we can honor Virginia Tech by taking what steps we can to make our organization and our people as prepared as possible and maybe just a little bit safer.
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