Managing in Difficult Times

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Free Online Course: Managing in Difficult Times provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Managing in Difficult Times is taught by Jan Rutherford.

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

    • Welcome
    1. Self-Awareness in Difficult Times
    • Drivers of change
    • Looking through your employees' eyes
    • Assuming responsibility for the new norm
    • Revisiting past performance
    2. Strategies to Stay Focused
    • Eliminating multitasking
    • Placing people at the core
    • Creating value in different ways
    3. Strategies for Innovation
    • Adopting a growth mindset
    • Eliminating undesirable default conditions
    • Staging for innovation
    4. Strategies to Develop a Committed Team
    • 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. How to Reduce Costs
    • Ties that bind: Gluing people to the organization
    • Rev up operating velocity
    6. Responses in Difficult Times
    • Becoming a change agent
    • Turning adversity into opportunity
    • Messaging is a two-way street
    Conclusion
    • Next sustaining steps