Manager of Managers: Navigating Crisis and Uncertainty is an intermediate-level course designed to help experienced leaders and managers guide their teams—through high-pressure, high-ambiguity situations. In today’s volatile world, your leadership and management is most visible when things go wrong. This course equips you with the mindset, tools, and strategies to lead and manage during crisis, stabilize teams in uncertain times, and rebuild with resilience. You'll explore real-world case examples, design your own response frameworks, and build a post-crisis recovery plan rooted in empathy, communication and trust. Through short videos, scenario-based readings, hands-on exercises, and interactive coaching, you'll learn how to communicate when there are no easy answers, make fast decisions with limited data, and strengthen your team’s long-term adaptability. Whether you're leading through disruption now or preparing for future challenges, this course helps you lead with calm, clarity, and confidence—when your team needs it most.
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There are 3 modules in this course
In this introductory lesson, learners will identify different types of crises and explore how leadership and/or management roles and behaviors must shift and adapt under pressure. They'll examine early crisis signals, practice diagnosing organizational vulnerabilities, and reflect on how leadership presence and calm decision-making create psychological safety across leadership and management teams.
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4 videos3 readings1 assignment
This lesson equips learners to guide their leadership and/or management teams through ambiguity. They'll explore frameworks for fast, values-based decision-making and empathetic team communication. With examples from healthcare and tech, learners will design leadership briefings, practice clarity under pressure, and reflect on how structured delegation prevents bottlenecks.
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3 videos1 reading1 assignment
In the final lesson, learners shift their focus to post-crisis leadership. They'll explore how to rebuild trust, process team emotions, and institutionalize lessons learned. This lesson emphasizes not just bouncing back—but bouncing forward—by designing resilient systems and developing leadership reflection rituals that reinforce confidence and preparation.
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