Given good management Tough Times

It is not because things are so difficult that we dare not, but they dare not do difficult. Seneca

Summary

When difficult times arise in a scenario that significantly affects the political, economic and forcing such companies, be prepared to operate them without the fear of failing, is because it has a capable management to address them in their knowledge guaranteed , vision, plans, skills, proactive strategies that can counter them.

Unfortunately not all companies have such managerial leaders that addresses the challenges and give way to the transformations required to get ahead.

Keywords

Risk, change, uncertainty, crisis, economy, politics

Basic considerations, scope, suggestions.

Venezuelan companies, especially SMEs, in this face serious problems of survival, operating on the national stage, the product of hard times that have been generated with the performance of the revolutionary government, fully identified with socialism, and this has led to changes very important, which have significantly harmed the country's business sector, particularly SMEs, many of which have closed, leaving to participate in the domestic market and affecting the business sector productivity in the country, leaving much to say.

There is no denying, as indicated by Julio Sergio Ramirez (gestion.com), that changes in society, markets, customers, competition, and technology around the globe are forcing organizations to clarify their values, develop new strategies and learn new ways of operation. Present adaptive challenges, not just technicians. We add leads to the emergence of difficult times to be faced.

Just says, one of the hardest things for leaders in the task of change is to mobilize the organization to do adaptive work, which is required when many of our beliefs are questioned, when the values ​​that gave success to the organization are less relevant, as the theory of the business is obsolete.

The truth says Ramirez, who during the crisis, the main challenge for leaders is to mobilize the organization to identify the challenges it faces and develop adaptive capacity to deal

It adds that when an organization faces tough times faced adaptive problems to overcome. Facing the challenge of making radical changes in many of the habits and organizational practices. This requires deep changes in the behavior of many people within the organization. An important feature of many adaptive problems is the difficulty of diagnosis and another is the difficulty of finding solutions. Those cases where there is little understanding of what is happening or why they are the hardest. Are cases in which the first challenge is to find the diagnosis. The task of leadership in times of crisis management is to create within the organization a new culture, new values, new rules, new beliefs, and especially, new patterns of behavior.

It also indicates a very interesting topic when referring to the role of management, the leader, and says that we must not forget that the most important role of the leader is to instill confidence in people. People are not born with confidence. The person with greater self-confidence can also be canceled. Self-confidence comes from success, experience, and organizational environment People must be willing to take risks and responsibilities. The leader must support them when they make mistakes.

Changes in society, markets, customers, competition, and technology around the globe are forcing organizations to clarify their values, develop new strategies and learn new ways of operation. Present adaptive challenges, not just technicians.

One of the hardest things for leaders in the task of change is to mobilize the organization to do adaptive work, which is required when many of our beliefs are questioned, when the values ​​that gave success to the organization are less relevant, and when business theory is obsolete.

Faced with the reality of the emergence of hard times Ramirez asked what are the key challenges facing leaders of organizations in difficult times? In this regard states: One, the sense of urgency. One of the hardest tasks of leadership is to promote and maintain a sense of urgency to remove the organization from the complacency that led to the crisis without creating desperation to weaken the commitment of staff in the process of change that will make lose valuable people and that weakens the support of key external stakeholders to overcome the crisis. If there is no urgency, most people will not be willing to change, but if the urge becomes desperation, many perceive as futile any effort and the most valuable will be tempted to leave the organization.

Two, the adventure of change. The change is in itself an adventure, is a risk, but calculated and it should be perceived. It is relevant communicate everything that leaders perceive the diagnosis or vision or strategy, nor have the same message for all audiences, although different messages should be consistent. Three, leadership and creating the future. When you talk about that in a society, company or country there is a crisis of leadership, we mean that there is a perceived inability to create a future deep, which is better or not will depend, to a high degree of leadership.

However, the leadership in times of crisis has five key challenges: The challenge of diagnosis and attitude, of the coalition's vision and strategy, persuasive communication, the training and empowerment and the challenge of embedding the new culture. Therefore, the final challenge of organizational leadership in difficult times is to mobilize the organization to identify adaptive challenges it faces, and developing the ability to confront them, creating their own future.

Conclusion

Definitely, management must be prepared to meet the challenges that occur with the emergence of hard times, identify opportunities and threats that arise, and give way to plans, actions to counter all the negative effects that threaten the survival, operation of the company.

Taking into account the effect of the challenges and resize all its resources to ensure the changes that are required to stand forth.

* Graduate Teacher Faces, Quality Management Program and productivity. Exatec

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