Business Owners & Entrepreneurs Podcast With Peter Boolkah | Business Coach | The Transition Guy®

In today’s video, I speak to trauma and performance expert Dr. Don Wood about Covid-19's impact on business executives and owners. Over the last 18 months, many changes have occurred that may have been quite traumatic to most of us, whether we're conscious of it or not. Today, we talk about how the pandemic affected businesses and their leaders, and the effects of trauma that this pandemic has caused on performance. The pandemic has been a huge game-changer and can really be a trigger for trauma. If there’s one thing that humans fear the most, it’s uncertainty. In our lifetime, there’s never been a greater period of uncertainty than now. So you can only imagine how the trauma from this pandemic affected business leaders, as much as it's affected a lot of other people. The trauma that accumulates over our lifetime affects the way we act and make decisions. Everyone's familiar with our human fight-or-flight response to stressful situations, but there's actually 3 possible effects of tra