The Good News

Well... yes, you have read correctly, I have titled this article "The Good News".

I am well aware that trying to see good news in this environment around us, and what we guess is to come can be, more than anything, an exercise in voluntarism. But if something teaches us not only Universal History, but also Natural History, it is that the Hegelian mechanism of Thesis and Antithesis always ends up having a Synthesis; and in the same way, it shows us that the result, that Synthesis, ends up implying an evolution. I am not describing more than the very story of Life itself, which, like Freedom, always ends up making its way.

Grief, despair, anger, insomnia and hopelessness are legitimate, but not everything that is legitimate is mandatory. What is compulsory, if only for congruence with the miracle of the fact that we are here, is to dig into the wall of tragedy until a little light finds a gap through. Because there is light behind that wall.

We have had enough of reading and hearing that the world is not going to be the same anymore, and I believe it is true. Our new ecosystem is going to need a lot of imagination, initiative and a good dose of audacity, but above all, if in some way we are going to continue here in an acceptable manner, it will be through two tools: training and help.

There are a lot of professionals who are going to have to learn new things, a lot of workers who will need to retrain into something other than proficiency with the latest version of Excel, a pile of people who will have to reach to others that can answer their questions, help them with their doubts, set them off in a new world. There is a crowd in need of help so that their universe does not stall, and at the same time to be able to contribute to that of others, a mass that needs, I repeat, training and help.

And the good news?

The good news is that helping others, holding their arms to get back on their feet, is going to become a lucrative activity, and that is beneficial at a global level. It is, because beyond teaching new procedures, new techniques ... aptitudes, it will be necessary to work on attitudes. Those looking for a foothold tomorrow will need their mental and emotional routine to be reprogrammed as much as the catalog of their knowledge. The attitude, and educating in the attitude, will be profitable activities.

"Coaching", "mentoring", the very centrality of the human being and his way of facing things, education in individual and corporate values, internal training, are going to have a superlative boom, and that is an opportunity to move forward, to improve, to have better people inside and outside the offices. Better people mean better professionals.

I sincerely believe that business organizations that are already beginning to take employee training seriously will have an edge in this new scenario; those that make this training available to them in an explicit, abundant and accessible way, those that give them tools that motivate them to pick on the wall.

Those that help them.

And at the same time, I believe that the next leader must be someone who sets an example in two ways: that of training himself and that of facilitating the formation of his team. That vision of help, that making the challenge of helping oneself a collective task, will give her qualitative boost. The leader who is capable of engaging his people and himself in retraining projects that include the purely professional and the personal and emotional, the one who knows how to put that in common from a horizontal perspective, will define this new era in which, good news, helping will be profitable.