Outward – Your Team

The Impact of VUCAH on Leadership and Teams

VOLATILITY: The rapid and unpredictable changes in the business environment necessitate leaders to be agile in their decision-making. UNCERTAINTY: In an uncertain environment, clarity becomes a valuable commodity. COMPLEXITY: The interconnectivity of systems, globalization, and technological advancements create intricate webs of influence. No individual leader can have the varied perspectives or bandwidth to understand and …

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The Art of Positive Feedback: Inspiring Peak Performance in Your Team

What’s a good way to help your team members start off the New Year on a positive note? How about giving some positive feedback, and maybe making feedback a regular occurrence rather than something provided only at formal reviews. Regular feedback may seem like an obvious communication pattern for the workplace, but the fact is …

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5 Steps to Unlock Effective Communication Between Managers and Employees

We believe that leaders are responsible for ensuring effective communication in their organization. Communication is a people process, so it is complex, but in the end, communication is a message sent and a message received. Leaders who are exceptional communicators understand this, and they adapt their style to their audience, and provide communication in multiple …

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Are You Curious Why Curiosity is a Critical Leadership Attribute? 

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it is an essential element of human leadership that underlies many of leadership’s most important attributes like listening, engaging, empowering, and getting the best out of the people you lead. By tuning in your curiosity, you improve your ability to relate to and engage other people, and you …

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Is a Sense of Urgency Sustainable in Your Organization?

When the world delivers volatility, uncertainty, and even chaos (VUCAH world), leaders are given the opportunity to thrive by showing their real colours – courage, can-do attitude, chutzpah, initiative, drive, influence, agility, emotional intelligence to name a few. If you are thinking that good leadership creates order and predictability rather than thriving on uncertainty, the …

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The Critical Factors for Leading in a VUCAH World

Covid no longer rules our days, but the VUCA world that Covid made more extreme, remains. Things are, and will continue to be volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. VUCAH now contains Hyperconnected, a fifth element that has been added to recognize the immense impact of a hyperconnected world where everything from disease to economics, politics, …

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The Alarming Cost of Workplace Stress and Burnout: A $1 Trillion Problem

Recent findings from a Gallup study have shed new light on the pressing issue of excessive stress in the workplace. According to the study, stress and burnout-related employee turnover are costing the economy a staggering $1 trillion. This eye-opening revelation underscores the urgent need to address workplace stress and its far-reaching consequences. We want to …

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The Art of Meaningful Communication – What is the Right Question?

While providing Coaching as a Leadership Style training in Washington last week we found that one of the most impactful insights was learning the power of asking open-ended questions to fully understand the issue. Managers who bring the art of meaningful communication to their teams by slowing down and being curious bring a deeper conversation …

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