A speaker describes losing motivation after moving all presentations online during COVID, hitting a burnout low in July and August before recovering in the fall. He calls it a "COVID roller coaster" and reflects on how leaders can help teams navigate similar emotional crashes.
Like my motivation's gone. I lost— me personally, I lost, you know, a motivational speaker. I lost my mojo mid-July after I pivoted hard and put all of my in-person presentations into 2021 and shifted to online. And I'd done my last online presentation that I was going to do for the next 6 weeks or so. And I just went, oh gosh, like I'm done. I was, you know, I didn't want to work. So for about 6 weeks, I really had to reset and go, wow, like this isn't over yet. And I'm looking into the fall to all of the presentations that had been postponed from April. Now, they're moving them into '21. I'm going, wow, like this is it. Like things have changed. So, I know that many, you know, if you're a leader of teams, many of your team have been feeling those same highs and lows. I call it the COVID roller coaster because, you know, feeling— I kind of went into a dip in July and August. And then, I came back out of it in the fall saying, all right, let's just square our shoulders. We'll get through this.
