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How to Lead Your Team Through Uncertainty
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Advanced Provider : Erin Shankie 5 Lessons · 14m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese
Course Description
In challenging times, it’s important to support the well-being of your employees, integrate diversity on your team, and build an agile culture.
Teamwork is also crucial in challenging times. Leaders who build a culture of teamwork create and maintain innovative cultures, catch mistakes quickly, find better solutions to problems, and have higher team productivity than competing organizations. This is all necessary for when rapid change happens.
In VUCA times, teams need to be ready to execute change quickly. To do this, leaders will want to model adaptability and state a clear, common objective, even when strategy is evolving. It’s important to encourage your team to collaborate, be innovative, and have the space to take chances.
In these lessons on How to Lead Your Team Through Uncertainty, you’ll learn how to lead with humility, including how to focus on how your team members function. You’ll also learn how to communicate a shared mission or vision that promotes teamwork. Finally, you’ll see how to help your team be open and ready for change.
What You'll Learn
- Explain human-centered leadership and how to lead with humility by focusing on how team members function
- Demonstrate empathy when supporting the well-being of your employees
- Describe an agile culture and how to build one that is innovative and ready for rapid change
- Communicate a shared mission or vision that promotes teamwork
- Foster team adaptability so your team is open and ready for change
- Encourage your team to collaborate, be innovative, and have space to take chances
Key Takeaways
- In challenging, VUCA times, leaders support employee well-being, integrate diversity, and build an agile culture so teams can execute change quickly.
- Leaders who build a culture of teamwork maintain innovative cultures, catch mistakes quickly, find better solutions, and achieve higher team productivity than competing organizations.
- Leading with humility means focusing on how team members function and modeling adaptability while stating a clear, common objective even as strategy evolves.
- Communicating a shared mission or vision promotes teamwork and helps the team stay aligned during rapid change.
- Helping a team be open and ready for change keeps it prepared to collaborate, innovate, and take chances.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
It is for leaders who want to guide their teams through challenging, uncertain (VUCA) times by supporting well-being, building teamwork, and fostering an agile, adaptable culture.
What will I learn in this course?
You will learn how to lead with humility and focus on how team members function, communicate a shared mission or vision that promotes teamwork, and help your team be open and ready for change.
What skills does this course help build?
It builds skills in Team Building, Team Leadership, Team Management, Teamwork, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, and Team Processes.
What topics or lessons are covered?
The lessons include Introduction, Leading with Humanity, Vision-Casting for a Stronger Team, Helping Your Team Evolve, and a Test Your Knowledge assessment.
What are the learning objectives?
The objectives are to explain human-centered leadership, demonstrate empathy, describe an agile culture, and understand team adaptability.
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