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LinkedIn Learning

Managing in Difficult Times

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to manage effectively in difficult times. Learn how to stay focused, keep innovating, inspire your team, and reframe challenges as opportunities.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Leading effectively through difficult times
1. Self-Awareness in Difficult Times
  • Drivers of change
  • Looking through your employees' eyes
  • Assuming responsibility for the new norm
  • Revisiting past performance
2. Staying Focused in Difficult Times
  • Investing in meaningful activities
  • Placing people at the core
  • Adopting a formal decision-making process
3. Innovating in Difficult Times
  • Adopting a growth mindset
  • Eliminating undesirable default conditions
  • Staging for innovation
4. Developing Team Commitment in Difficult Times
  • A new take on the balanced scorecard
  • The cascading strategy map
  • Making the roster every day
  • Teaming instead of leading
  • Alternative approaches to cost reductions
5. Reducing Costs in Difficult Times
  • Ties that bind: Gluing people to the organization
  • Rev up operating velocity
6. Responding Positively in Difficult Times
  • Becoming a change agent
  • Turning adversity into opportunity
  • Messaging is a two-way street
Conclusion
  • Adversity as a tool for learning, growth, and bonding

Taught by

Jan Rutherford

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