How to Be a Good Boss During Trying Times

On-Demand Webinar

Summary

We’re all feeling it—anxiety, stress, fear, and a general frustration around not knowing what will happen next. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, businesses are suffering, people are losing income and jobs, and long-standing organizational processes are being turned upside down. Every boss now faces the challenge of managing worried people in a era of relentless troubling news, uncertainty, and financial distress.

In this free webinar, Professors Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao will offer guidance on how managers and leaders can rise to the occasion. They will draw on rigorous research and lessons from wise and caring leaders to show bosses how to make, communicate, and implement necessary tough decisions. You'll learn how skilled bosses can minimize harm to employees, make prudent financial decisions, and set the stage for organizations to bounce back faster.

You Will Learn:

HOW leaders do things during tough times is as important as WHAT they do.

How to use predictability, understanding, and control to bolster employee well-being and performance.
Why compassionate, caring, and tough-minded leadership is more crucial in bad times than good.
How to innovate during trying times. And why innovation is more important, easier to accomplish, and often more effective in bad times than good.
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The Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program.

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Speakers

Bob Sutton

Bob Sutton is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School. Sutton is also co-founder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and the new Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, a multi-disciplinary program at Stanford that teaches and spreads "design thinking". He is an IDEO Fellow, member of the Institute for the Future's Board Trustees, and a Professor of Organizational Behavior, by courtesy, at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sutton studies the links between managerial knowledge and organizational action, innovation, and organizational performance. He has received many honors, including named as one of 10 "B-School All-Stars" by BusinessWeek in 2007.

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Huggy Rao

Hayagreeva Rao is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching courses such as Human Resources Management and teaching within two Executive Programs: Stanford and Human Resources. He has is widely published in the fields of management and sociology and studies the social and cultural causes of organizational change. His recent work investigates the role of social movements as motors of organizational change in professional and organizational fields. Rao has drawn on his knowledge and expertise to conduct workshops for British Petroleum, McDonald's, Aon, Bristol-Meyers, General Electric, Microsoft, the FBI, and the intelligence community.

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