Adaptive leadership: Leading teams through uncertainty
What you'll learn
- Stop looking for certainty in high-change environments and start leading effectively when uncertainty is present.
- Use both / and thinking to leverage uncertainty to your advantage.
- Recognize the level of complexity present in your team's work and adjust your leadership style to match.
- Develop emotional fluency in recognizing how you and your team respond to uncertainty and create space for high quality check-ins.
- Facilitate your team through a series of powerful exercises so they can perform well in uncertainty.
- Communicate change in a way that is empathetic and direct.
Requirements
- This course is suitable for anyone who leads a team.
Description
The world is changing fast and organizations are experiencing relentless change. Change fatigue is real. And somehow, in the middle of all that, your team is still looking to you for clarity, stability, and direction.
The uncertainty that arises from change is uncomfortable. It can trigger a threat response - that fight, flight, or freeze reaction — and we naturally want to find something solid to hold onto. But during complex change, that kind of certainty often doesn’t exist.
In this course, we stop trying to find certainty and we start working with uncertainty.
We’ll look at how to navigate the emotions of uncertainty — because change is hard, and emotional fluency is a big part of what makes you effective, steady, and grounded
We’ll explore how to turn uncertainty into an advantage — using both/and thinking to help your team leverage fluidity and predictability.
We’ll dive into how to adapt your leadership style — so you know when to plan, when to experiment, and how to guide your team differently depending on the kind of work you’re facing.
This course is rooted in real-world experience as I have worked in transformation and change for many years, including as Director of How We Work at Twitter. This course brings together some of the most practical, human-centred tools I’ve found for leading through uncertainty with confidence and care.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for anyone who leads people in fast changing, dynamic environments.
Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 22 Reviews
- 75 Students
- 2 Courses
Having spent my career leading complex change, I know first-hand how hard it is to drive real transformation. I’ve seen how the resulting uncertainty and turbulence impacts performance and wellbeing at every level of the organization. That’s why I founded Work In Motion - to help people lead change with coherence and to empower organizations to evolve and shape what comes next. I am the former Director of Learning at Twitter, responsible for a global initiative called How We Work. I'm a Certified Integral Facilitator, Transformational Coach and Certified Polarity Practitioner.