What are you and your organization doing to follow the next economic flow?

China calls for a new currency to replace dollar in a shift in perspective on U.S.'s roll in world economy: read here.

There is a sea change occurring - a tidal shift: economy is flowing to the east. What are you doing to follow this current? How is your organization preparing for this shift?

New Management Job Description: Managing Stress, Anxiety and Fear

In a survey conducted several years ago by the Anxiety Disorders of America Association (ADAA) in partnership with National Stress Out Week, 56% of people said that anxiety and stress affects their performance, 51% said it affected their interpersonal work relationships, 50% said it affects their quality of work, and 43% said it affects their relationship with their superiors.

From The Business Mirror:

"For some, the economy is having an extreme impact. In a November-December study by the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 54 percent of participating hotline callers said their household's financial situation had changed in the past year. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, meanwhile, has had an increase in calls, from 412,000 in 2007 to 568,000 in 2008."

Right now, almost everyone is, at least a little, stressed out. Especially at organizations that have gone through one, two or three rounds of layoffs. Right now, in this economy and during this recession, managers, leaders, and organizations need to step into new leadership capacities. Managers need to engage and interact with people in a way that assists in finding ease and support. We need new management for a new world. Earlier this week, I wrote a blog called Leading from the Heart, the first in an undetermined series on a new and emergent way of leadership and management. We all need to lead from the heart.

Again, from The Business Mirror:

"The irony, advisers and economists say, is that an anxious investor, consumer or worker actually compounds the economy's distress. The fear is driving people to make rash decisions with investments, thus contributing to the volatility of the stock markets. It is keeping consumers from spending money, not a good thing nationally, considering that consumer spending makes up 70 percent of the economy. And it is making many workers less productive at work."

Building leadership capacities is now essential for an organization's success. Managers need to manage and lead from the heart. Leaders need a new sensitivity and awareness. If an organization's leaders cannot manage fear, anxiety and stress, that organization will be greatly crippled and ultimately fail.

In the series Leading from the Heart, I will touch on and explore many different perspectives on what will be required for leaders to manage successfully and effectively in our new world and time.

In the meantime, here are a few pointers:

1) Find confidence and be confident. Inauthentic expressions will backfire. However, if you can access a true perspective of ease, innovation, and abundance your presence will have powerful impact on all of those around you. Your attitude speaks much louder than your words.

2) Listen. Listen. Listen. Use your time to listen to your employees concerns. Listen with genuine concern. Talking to your employees about their problems is not listening to their problems. Truly listen. Truly listen to them from a place of clarity and compassion. Yes, compassion. This is not the 80s anymore and management needs to change.

3) Be honest and positive. False hope is false. Blind optimism is annoying. However, find a healthy, balanced, positive perspective and share it generously.

4) Reframe. Challenge the assumptions of doom and the perspectives of failure. Give your people a new and empowered place to perceive from. Show them hope. Show them innovation. Make the impossible possible. Take failure and turn it into results.

5) Be real. Share your concerns and your fears in a real, honest, and authentic way, and also offer your wisdom for how you manage and deal with it. Be willing to relate to your people; collapse the divide and let down the wall. Create access to you. This isn't an open door policy, it's an open heart and mind policy. Revisit no. 3.

Change has to happen, and it needs to happen fast. The world and our economy is not going to afford us an even and measured learning curve. The time for new management came yesterday. Get busy.

A Few Things Your Company/Organization Needs to Consider

I think and feel that companies need to do a few things right now in order to adjust to the market (not listed hierarchically):

1) Manage fear and anxiety. Most people today are walking around with a lot of internal discomfort and confusion. This does not make people effective, productive or creative, and all of these things are important right now. Invest in the interior of your employees - you're really making an investment in the exterior of your organization, the product, service and output. At the same time, develop capacities and perspectives that add value, leadership and responsibility.

2) Let go of excess, trim the fat. I am all for management reduction - some middle management needs to go. Performance based reviews and termination at all levels of organizations. Reduce executive salaries.

3) Build a culture of honesty, accountability and transparency. Support your employees and they will support you - both at work and in conversation. Your employees do as much to establish your brand as your advertising.

4) LEAN out your system and organization. Remove all that does not add value. I like Holacracy, LEAN 2.0, as it considers many layers and positions of value.

5) Build your social network and social media - it's damn cheap and damn effective.

Solutions for The Current Economy

Times are very tough, and yet I am hopeful. I'm optimistic and even, dare I say, excited by the opportunities for change. Things may get a little worse before they begin to get a little better. However, they will get better. The most exciting thing about this opportunity is that we (each and every one of us) can, needs to, and will affect this change. There is already so much transition, reconsideration, visioning, creation, commitment, and energy.

Simply, we want to do better, and we know we can do better. I want to support you in this, and am offering four distinct services for both individuals and organizations to assist in this economy and transition.

"Kris is a natural teacher and coach, and an exceptional leader. He is extremely intelligent and grounded, and visionary and compassionate. I recommend him with out hesitation to those wanting to work at the leading edge of development and performance."
- Dana Carman, Principal Pacific Integral

Summary of Services

· Transition Coaching for Individuals

Perfect for someone that has recently lost a job or is currently re-visioning their lives.

· Executive Coaching for Struggling Organizations

Essential for an executive that is faced with layoff and restructuring decisions in the next month.

· 360° Organization/Business Assessment & Change Initiative

Ideal for organizations and businesses that are restructuring and cutting back.

· Process Driven Strategy Investigation for Organizations

Designed for businesses and organizations that need to rapidly adjust immediate strategy to current market and social conditions.

"Working with Kris Nelson brought clarity and precision. Kris's easy, natural and non-judgmental insight supported and encouraged me to go deep inside myself, to observe my actions, to notice where they were coming from without attachment and critical analysis. Kris is a pillar of strength; his wisdom coached me through situations that I would have previously thought were insurmountable."
- Lauri Ashworth, Owner and Founder The Hub

Detail of Services

· Transition Coaching for Individuals

This is a specific six week or three month course for individuals in transition. This personal course will include deep vision work, development of strategic intuition and forecasting, communication coaching, leadership empathy, value solidification, and effective life strategy. We will explore the things that are keeping you from being proactive and successful: fear, doubt, blame, and hopelessness, and ensure that they no longer keep you from your greatest success and purpose.

We will meet for an hour each week in person or on the phone. You will engage specific work and practices custom designed for you. And you will have full access to me, either by phone or email, in between sessions for support and guidance.

As the things that are keeping you from moving forward dissipate, and the capacities and skills you need to be a successful actor of the future are developed, you will step into greater success and freedom.

For pricing and further information, please email me at: kris@kramaconsulting.com

· Executive Coaching for Struggling Organizations

Executives are dealing with a lot - I am hearing about overload, impossible decisions, guilt, fear, frustration, and challenge like many have never faced before.

This support and coaching focuses on separating emotional and mental experience, the facts of circumstance, and forward moving strategy in a process I call M3. Each area is dealt with using further processes of discernment and discovery, so that every decision is made with absolute clarity and information.

This is a retainer package, which allows for 24 hour a day access to me.

For pricing and further information, please email me at: kris@kramaconsulting.com

· 360° Organization/Business Assessment & Change Initiative

A needed solution for businesses and organizations of all sizes. Please call or write for a free consultation to learn if this is right for you.

This process opens up the organization from the inside out and the outside in. The organization is reviewed in a systematic and comprehensive method, uncovering the invaluable, unclear, unrefined and underdeveloped areas allowing for a more fluid, more successful and higher achieving organization.

During a time when mistakes cannot be allowed to go unnoticed and persist, it is essential to know what is great, what needs work, and what no longer adds value. The sustainability of your organization may depend on this. The assessment is always followed with a path to change and the support to implement.

For pricing and further information, please email me at: kris@kramaconsulting.com

· Process Driven Strategy Investigation for Organizations

I hear about too many organizations making short-term, reactive decisions that do not align with overall vision, mission and values. In this process the vision, mission and values become clarified and act as the guiding light for all needed adjustments in strategy, tactics, and process.

For pricing and further information, please email me at: kris@kramaconsulting.com


More than ever, during this time, support is needed for your success and the success of your organization. Allow Krama Consulting & Development a hand in growing you and your organization into the future.

Best wishes and great success!

Sincerely Yours,


Kristoffer Nelson
Kristoffer Nelson has been transforming individuals and systems for over 10 years.