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Advocating for the unpopular
From the course: Management Tips
Advocating for the unpopular
- Bad news, leadership can be very difficult. Once in a while, you will share things you can't wait to share, someone's promotion, a birthday celebration or how about an increase in next year's budget. These things are a joy to discuss. However, sometimes you have to do things at work you don't like. As a manager, you have to make decisions, sell them effectively and stand by them even when you know they will be very unpopular. That's just part of the job. For example, imagine these. A hiring freeze or pay freeze, layoffs, an executive unhappy with the team, big budget cuts, perks that are cut or how about a client who's completely upset with your team. Yes, these things happen. So what do you do about them? Well, as the boss, you can at least make these types of issues as pain-free as possible. To make that happen, remember these four key strategies. First, embrace transparency whenever it's reasonable to do so. You never want a big difficult decision or change to surprise your team.…
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Becoming a change agent2m 59s
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Finding targets for innovation2m 45s
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Assessing your organization's change readiness2m 50s
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Embracing failure2m 33s
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Developing your creativity3m 6s
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Breaking through with brainstorming3m 16s
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Embracing the devil's advocate2m 50s
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Managing creative talent3m 2s
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Fighting bureaucracy3m 6s
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Not all best practices are best2m 57s
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Diversity’s real power2m 6s
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Initiating change conversations2m 57s
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Creating needed debate3m 2s
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Knowing when to engage positive conflict2m 42s
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Myth of creative genius2m 44s
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Making risk feel like learning2m 47s
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The difference between creativity and innovation3m 10s
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People don't hate change2m 47s
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Advocating for the unpopular2m 20s
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The upside of limited resources2m 54s
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Understanding change capacity2m 24s
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Picking a successful fight at work2m 19s
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Start, stop, change2m 44s
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