Adaptive Leadership Skills for Navigating Disruption and Change
When the going gets tough, the tough pivot. Whether you're a solopreneur consultant or a large corporate brand, the same advice applies: Your team must pivot to survive and, more importantly, thrive. Many organizations implement new steps in productivity or turn to collaboration and communication solutions, while others adapt their business technology, upgrade operations or improve their data solutions. The ability to change, with speed and accuracy, to meet emerging opportunities and challenges is imperative for your team. The ability to pivot starts with a personal committment to adopt a growth mindset of resiliency and flexibility, leaning away from fear and stagnation and constructively redirecting self-determination.
When the going gets tough, the tough pivot. Whether you're a solopreneur consultant or a large corporate brand, the same advice applies: Your team must pivot to survive and, more importantly, thrive. Many organizations implement new steps in productivity or turn to collaboration and communication solutions, while others adapt their business technology, upgrade operations or improve their data solutions. The ability to change, with speed and accuracy, to meet emerging opportunities and challenges is imperative for your team. The ability to pivot starts with a personal committment to adopt a growth mindset of resiliency and flexibility, leaning away from fear and stagnation and constructively redirecting self-determination.
"Pivoting" means shifting to a new strategy. To adapt in today’s fast-changing business climate, we must be able to pivot, both individually and as a team. Designed for remote delivery, this interactive workshop will energize you and teach you the keys to pivoting effectively and productively.
There are many demands in the workplace and virtual workplace. We all need the energy and focus to do our best work every day, to behave like a leader at work and home, to think ahead, to keep our immune system strong, and to keep our frame of mind in check. All of this can be exhausting, requiring more than we feel capable of. It’s normal to feel challenged sometimes to just get the workday started. This workshop will teach you how to pivot from where you are into a place of productivity.
Pivot to Thrive can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Leadership Essentials, you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.
Adopt a growth mindset for constructively directed self-determination
Pivot to Thrive can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Leadership Essentials, you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.
Topics include:
Resilience
Dealing with uncertainty
Neuroscience of fear
Breaking out of fear
Growth from the inside out
Discovering and staying in your personal balance
The workshop is provided as a short series of on-demand videos, readings, and insightful exercises, designed to be accomplished at your own pace. You will meet and interact directly with your instructor, Galina Knopman, a certified life coach with dozens of individual and corporate clients throughout government and industry.
This program is suitable for all levels of management and leadership interested in developing and re-directing their teams toward flexibility, resiliency and growth. Whether you're in business for yourself or manage a team in a corporate environment, this course will guide you toward advancing your mindset to thrive in our ever-changing business culture.
Course
Duration
Self-Paced Online
Pivot to Thrive 12
16 Hours
September 15, 2025 release; completes October 12, 2025
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