Accelerate Your Performance

Leading Change with Creative Tension

May 17, 2021 Studer Education Season 3 Episode 177
Accelerate Your Performance
Leading Change with Creative Tension
Show Notes

Change has accelerated for all of us over this past year. External demands and pressures are calling for leaders to change the way they do business. While the majority of our employees want to help the organization achieve excellence, not everyone feels this way. Our responsibility as leaders is to focus on building work environments that empower solid and high performers to be accountable and see their value to the organization. Today, Janet shares how leaders can master the ability to lead and manage with creative tension.

This episode answers questions such as:

  • Where can we start as we lead and manage change in our organizations?
  • What is creative tension and when does it become too much?
  • How can we manage creative tension to help us lead change?

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