5 Steps to Protect Your Career As We Turn Toward Recovery经济我s reopening, so make sure you're not closed off to these survival strategies.

Due to the devastating impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the restaurant industry, one of mycoachingclients, Alex, an entrepreneurial executive who served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) in a regional chain of 24 diners in the Northeast, wanted to explore switching to a different industry.

Alex turned to me as her executive coach and asked for my guidance in early March, before the lockdown fully took hold. I recommended a five-step decision-making process that addresses the dangerous judgment errors we make calledcognitive biases, which devastate our decision-making in both ourprofessionaland personal life. And now I'm going to share them with you.

Step 1: Gather information from a wide variety of informed perspectives