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

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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. You can click on the images below to participate in the entire Courage Challenge.

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Leading in Complexity and Uncertainty with Anu Rathninde

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Complexity and uncertainty mean unpredictable business outcomes, yet decisions are made based on assumptions of certainty that don’t include the interdependence and emergence of your employees, customers, supply chain, and eventually, success. Leading in Complexity and Uncertainty. 21:14 Complexity is the reality. Get the Book.

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Confidential Information – What to Say When You Can’t Say Anything

Let's Grow Leaders

A sensitive business negotiation or a product launch. Another challenge of confidential information is that it creates uncertainty. That uncertainty can erode your team’s morale and productivity if you don’t address it. The uncertainty created by their absence was unnerving and people naturally looked for answers.

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Leading Through Uncertainty

Leading Blog

In times of great uncertainty, we must be leaders. In Leading Through Uncertainty , Ray Davis writes, “Effective leadership is motivating, and it can and should be the energy that propels a company through inevitable waves of change. Leading through uncertainty means leading with the truth. People can handle the truth.

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205: Coronavirus – 13 Ways to Stay Sane and Productive During a Pandemic

Engaging Leader

Are you able to stay happy, energized, and productive during all the distractions, changes, and uncertainties of COVID-19? Are you able to stay happy, energized, and productive during all the distractions, changes, and uncertainties of COVID-19? It’s not easy! It’s not easy!

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How to Be Focused and Productive in a Crisis

Lead from Within

In those moments it’s especially important that leaders work to keep everyone focused and productive while coping with ambiguity and uncertainty. Some leaders think they’re protecting people by not acknowledging difficult truths or uncertainty, but that’s not an effective—or ethical—approach. and lead by example. Tell the truth.

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The Power of Pressure

Leading Blog

In The Power of Pressure , Dane Jensen says, “Pressure isn’t just a nasty by-product of life, it’s an essential input into high performance. Jensen has identified three factors common to all pressure that exist in some combination: high importance, high uncertainty, and high volume. And it’s true. A life well-lived requires pressure.”

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