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Learning our way forward

When you’re leading through uncertainty, it helps to adopt a growth mindset—treating every event as a learning experience so you can find the path that is otherwise hidden.

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Three essential teamwork skills

It is still possible to practice these teaming skills, even over Zoom. And whether you’re a public sector team in crisis mode or a business managing all the uncertainty of this moment, you’ll benefit from them.

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Teamwork in the unknown

This lack of clarity is testing our ability to lead teams in a moment when we need teamwork more than ever. 

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Leading through the messy middle

The trick with the middle game is this: you don’t try to win. You aim to improve your position and options, until a way forward emerges.

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Let people wobble

When you’re learning something, you wobble — it’s your nervous system responding to the unfamiliarity of a new move and course-correcting. That wobbling IS how you learn. And if we intervene to stop that wobbling, we inadvertently inhibit learning. Let people wobble!

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Why the ending is important

Here’s a couple of reasons why it’s hard to end things, from a social science perspective, and why it’s so important, from a leadership perspective.

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Opposing the status quo

Good storytelling is arguably the most vital leadership skill for motivating people through change. 

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A kettlebell and a successful fail

When we are leading into the unknown, we operate in a context of failing — because we do not yet have the ability to implement something that we are only just beginning to master. The key is to focus on the way we lead, not the outcome.

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The leadership team blindspot

Before leaving my post at SYPartners, I interviewed my colleagues about their experience of senior leadership teams — the teams that sit at the top of an organization. 

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