Being productive is important, and if it’s balanced with a clear consciousness of the reality we are living right now, it can yield beautiful results. The risks of asking your teams to continue to be as productive as before and in the same way as before are high however. Pretending that all is normal is very invalidating for everyone.Some employees are already stretched to the limit of their resources. We are not supposed to be OK all the time. By creating a sense of “all is alright, or all will be good”, it may create the expectation that we should be coping well. That not being OK is not a failure of some sort. Forgetting this sets the ground for emotional pain for many of us.