Adversity creates demand for advisors and mentors.
Any adversity creates the need to change.
Right now, for better or worse, adversity creates demand for a whole range of services. Everyone is undergoing a personal evolution, spending more time at home than they have for a long time. Couples communicate more frequently, as everyone has to consider new priorities and work together on new plans.
Advisors and mentors have an opportunity to help in times of adversity. However, they will be in short supply as people find it increasingly challenging to plan their future lives and businesses with certainty.
Despite abundant information and training programs, nothing will replace the power of personalised support and advice. Many are struggling for the first time, and many others have become shadows of their former selves; strategic intervention will become an essential input.
As an advisor, facilitator, coach, and mentor, I’ve never seen anything as disruptive as the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing definitive advice to clients in their hour of need is difficult. However, everyone will need practical advisors and mentors to help them sort through all the new problems and frustrations they face.
In the current crisis, you can defend your business and try to minimise your losses, or you can play offence and find new ways to adapt and thrive. We think the latter offers more opportunity and more peace of mind, which is why advisors and mentors will be in high demand as time passes and people turn their thoughts to recovery.
Most people will struggle with the changes they have to make. The main reason is that they don’t have the practical knowledge, systems, tools, and processes they genuinely believe in and are relying on wishing and hoping for better outcomes.
Quotable Quotes.
“Be aware; while some things are harder to do today, some things are much more manageable when your business has the right foundations, and you keep operations simple, so people simply understand”. Peter Sergeant