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How to Help Your Team Gain Clarity During Serious Uncertainty [VIDEO]

Let's Grow Leaders

When you’re dealing with uncertainty and change , it’s easy to feel like EVERYTHING is uncertain, but that’s seldom true. Today’s Asking for a Friend will help your team gain clarity in uncertainty. Day 3: How to Help a Team Member Position Their Wild Idea (That Just Might Work).

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Positive Chaos: Transforming Crisis into Clarity and Advantage

Leading Blog

In Positive Chaos , Dan Thurmon explains how to do just that. Chaos happens, but we need to become a creator of positive chaos. That is to say, we need to seize the chaos as an opportunity to transform ourselves, accomplish, and positively influence others to do the same. C HAOS is ubiquitous and inevitable. Why don’t we?

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Change on the Run: Surviving Workplace Uncertainty

Leading Blog

I F THE ADAGE “the only constant is change” described our pre-pandemic lives, “the only thing you can rely on is uncertainty” expresses our current realities. Uncertainty is now a workplace norm, and quickly managing new circumstances is a must-have survival and success capability. Why Uncertainty is Difficult.

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Positively Energizing Leaders Are Heliotropic

Lead Change Blog

The heliotropic effect describes the inherent tendency in all living things toward positive energy and away from negative energy. In nature, the sun is the source of positive, life-giving energy, so the heliotropic effect explains why plants and other organisms lean toward the light over time. It is renewing.

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How To Better Deal With Uncertainty

The Horizons Tracker

Uncertainty can be something most of us do our best to avoid. Indeed, the considerable uncertainty caused by both the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine has widely been linked with a significant increase in stress. Research earlier this year from Cambridge University highlights how uncertainty can diminish our decision-making.

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How to Look Forward with Confidence in Uncertainty

Lead from Within

I find that it’s especially helpful in times of struggle, difficulty and uncertainty—which makes it perfect for the world today. Everything can be taken from us, including all our freedoms, and in times of uncertainty it’s easy to feel that we have no options. These words say so much. But we always have a choice. The Leadership Gap.

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9 Ways to Be a Positive Force in a Negative Workplace

Let's Grow Leaders

.” I’ve got to admit, the description I got on the other end of the phone was pretty bad: little to no recognition, development, or teamwork…combined with long hours, limited resources, lots of finger-pointing, and the uncertainty of a new […].