Weather or Not

So, if you are in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast today, you might be in a blizzard.

It helps to make plans for these sorts of things. If your team members can work from home, go that route. Make sure that you anticipate that some people might lose power and/or internet access, and your working parents may have kids home from school.

You might also go the “snow day!” route and give everyone a break. This can work well if your clients are also in the same regional weather situation. If you work nationally or internationally, it’s less of an option.

Make sure that your primary focus is keeping your people safe. Do NOT insist that people travel to work in dangerous driving conditions. You might be a day behind schedule after that snow day, but you’ll be MUCH further behind if you have a team member hospitalized for weeks with severe injuries from a car accident because you wanted to still hold that in-person meeting.

If you don’t have a contingency plan already, today is a great day to look at what gets disrupted and figure out your responses for the next time we have a “snowmaggedon.”

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