{"id":4675,"date":"2020-08-24T01:50:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T05:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2020-08-24T01:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T05:50:26","slug":"rising-to-the-challenge-situational-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2020\/2020\/08\/24\/rising-to-the-challenge-situational-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising to the Challenge- Situational Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Situational leadership was extremely relevant this summer\u00a0 as the typical pathways to being an effective leader\u00a0 that I had heard about the CEO of Avascent was that he focused\u00a0 very sincerely on building personal relationships with all of his employees. He was known to always have\u00a0 his\u00a0 door open during the day\u00a0 and would more than\u00a0 once a day walk around the office to\u00a0 catch up with employees and help\u00a0 them in any way he could. However, with the transition to remote work, his approach to leading through personal relationships had to shift as popping by an office becomes very difficult when your office is Microsoft Teams. On top of that, he had to balance the different demands of the international offices as\u00a0 different countries were in very different stages of the pandemic and needed different policies to reflect\u00a0 what was going on domestically.<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe Avascent\u2019s\u00a0 CEO\u00a0 was able to rise\u00a0 to the occasion and still tried his best to stay connected to his employees through trivia nights or random chats. What I admire most about his leadership this summer was his ability to adapt\u00a0 quickly, while remaining transparent about when he didn\u2019t have the answers. For example, he originally planned to bring people back\u00a0 into\u00a0 the office\u00a0 (with many guidelines for social distancing and limits to the number of employees allowed inside at once), but as the summer progressed announced that there was no current plan for a return to office and he didn\u2019t want to announce a date not knowing he could commit to\u00a0 it. After this announcement he\u00a0 held a company wide meeting to discuss\u00a0 the rationale behind the decision making process. In that company meeting he also released a new set of commitments\u00a0 for the firm as a response to the murder of\u00a0 George Floyd\u00a0 and subsequent protests in DC. Through\u00a0 this process he recruited the entire firm to be a part of the conversation on how to be better, including interviewing the summer analysts\u00a0 on their recruiting process to see how their recruiting could be more intentionally equitibile, starting with the campuses\u00a0 they choose\u00a0 to recruit on.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a summer where there were hundreds of moving parts\u00a0 (especially considering the aerospace industry was deeply affected by the\u00a0 pandemic), Avascent\u2019s CEO demonstrated situational leadership\u00a0 in the way he was able to react quickly effectively to\u00a0 the changes in the world around him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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