Leading on the Edge: Extraordinary Stories and Leadership Insights from The World's Most Extreme Workplace

Part V

Antarctic winter

Keep your troops motivated during your own antarctic winter.

Like it or not, every workplace has its own antarctic winter. It could be the six months in between major milestones for a significant project, it could be being asked to do more with less. Sometimes work is just a hard slog. Your role as a leader is critical in these times. You have to keep the energy up, the creative juices flowing and the team intact. How, and how well, you do this will determine the shape you'll be in at the beginning of spring.