Thursday Professional Development: Leading During Unpredictable Times
Candace Nicolls leads the Executive Development and Coaching practices at Envoy. A former Chief People Officer for fast growth technology companies, her focus is on ensuring our executive clients can negotiate the best performance from their talent by finding mutually agreed goals, incentives, and accountability metrics. Candace leads conversations focused on understanding organizational dynamics and collaboratively finding pathways to resolution and higher performance. As part of this practice, she leads Envoy’s research collaborations on building social connection within high performing teams and addressing executive loneliness.
Scott Wayne is the lead negotiator at Envoy. He supports executives and government leaders in negotiating partnerships, navigating crises, and resolving conflict. He particularly focuses on arenas where commercial, government, and nonprofit issues intersect. Scott teaches executive leadership programs and speaks at conferences on combining negotiation theory, behavioral economics, and stagecraft to understand human behaviors, negotiate through conflict, and influence outcomes.
Predictability is out, uncertainty is in. The traditional “rules” that applied in society are shifting and core assumptions are no longer solid. More than ever, leaders need the right tools to guide their teams to high performance as they navigate uncharted waters.
In this interactive session, participants will be introduced to a series of frameworks and tools to help them drive optimal performance from their teams.
Key Takeaways:
1. How to contextualize changing operating environments for decision making.
2. How to build flexible operating models to respond to changing scenarios.
3. How to stabilize team members intellectually and emotionally in uncertain environments.
4. How to motivate high-performers to remain focused on mission without full information or resources.
5. How to make optimal tradeoffs in the face of imperfect knowledge.