Facilitate - Fitness for purpose

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Overview

Print deadlines are rarely an editor’s friend, and that’s certainly the case as we respond to a sudden, ugly war in Ukraine likely to prove life changing for all of us in one way or another. Thus it is that my intended assessment of social media messaging platforms and how they offer transformative forms of team management is something you’ll now find on our Facilitate Daily newsletter. Here, we consider a more sobering prospect. What, after all, lies ahead? When IWFM adopted ‘Turbulent Times’ to describe its response during the pandemic, it cannot have known that as soon as the Covid-19 crisis abated the phrase would be further ascribable to this geopolitical conflict. And as I write, the war is becoming increasingly barbaric. Only the extent of the catastrophe ahead remains open to question.