Leading Through Uncertain Times
A collection of aids for managers and facilitators to “take it to the team” and cascade the resource center’s learning to groups and individuals. The Toolkit offers:
How to Execute Effective Leadership During Downturns
Empower your managers to protect and extend your company’s core business and employees when faced with uncertainty. Leading Through Uncertain Times is an online resource center with self-paced and group learning activities that prepare managers to handle the downside of business cycles.
The Center’s content, tools and task-based activities provide guidance on adapting business strategies, focusing on fundamentals and building resilience in the face of an unpredictable future
Benefits
- Enhanced Strengths. The collection’s content shows managers how to identify, adapt and focus on organizational core competencies. * Exclusive Videos. Expert insights presented in an engaging format.
- Manager’s Toolkit. Discussion Guide, teaching aids and “Conversation Starters” make it easy to cascade groundbreaking ideas and best practices throughout an organization or a group.
- Quick and Easy. Contemporary “Cover Flow” design let users immediately navigate to what they need.
- RSS and Blog Feeds. Connect your managers to the latest thinking on today’s business challenges.
- Employee Confidence. Tools, tips and techniques to help managers foster resilience and a positive climate.
Target Audiences
Leading Through Uncertain Times provides advice, tools and actionable resources for leaders who must effectively re-position business priorities, and motivate people through times of crisis and business downturns.
Experts
Leading Through Uncertain Times draws on the work of some of the foremost thinkers in business management and innovation: Darrell Rigby, Partner in the Boston office of Bain & Company, and head of the firm's Global Retail and Global Innovation Practices; and Scott Anthony, President of Innosight, an innovation consulting and executive education company with offices in Massachusetts, Singapore, and India.
PROGRAM ELEMENTS
Integrate Downside Wisdom into Your Leadership Development
Blend the latest ideas on leadership during uncertain times into your learning curriculum. The resources in the online collection can support and reinforce both self-directed and group action learning. The content can be chunked according to tasks for targeted learning.
Leading Through Uncertain Times is organized for fast, easy navigation through a wide breadth of learning assets:
- Content: Three topic areas-Adapt Your Strategy, Manage the Fundamentals, and Communicate for Strength – provide guidance to managers on how to effectively lead others through tumult. Task-based Action Plans promote learning by doing and goal setting.
- Featured Experts: Video clips by leading experts that highlight key conceptual material in each section.
- Media Collection: An extensive selection of articles, book chapters, mobile downloads, case studies, videos, eLearning modules, practical tools, and Conversation Starters.
- The Managers’ Toolkit: A collection of aids for managers and facilitators to “take it to the team” and cascade the resource center’s learning to groups and individuals. The Toolkit offers:
- Discussion Guide: helps managers and facilitators assign readings on critical topics in preparation for group discussions.
- Blended Learning: provides classroom Facilitation and Participant Guides for each section.
- Tools Index: quick access to all the tools in the collection, listed by section.
- Conversation Starters Index: offers quick access to all the Conversation Starters in the collection, which can be e-mailed to stimulate dialogue around a specific topic.
