Marcia's Leadership Q and As: Key Traits Your Team Needs: Anticipate

Q. Surrounded by uncertainty and disruption in our industry and society, what are the traits we need to develop on our teams across our entire organization?

A. Organizations across any industry are often too busy doing, doing, and doing, they underestimate the significance of anticipation! What might happen and what needs to happen?

There are traits that are useful and important to learn, adopt, and put into practice. They are needed during surprises and for future survival. When there’s disruption or change occurring (the best to the worst change), great leaders and their teams quickly pivot.

A team that can quickly gain clarity, focus, and define their purpose and goals collaborate to achieve progress and success. Natural leadership develops, and specific traits emerge as team members support each other.

An insatiable curiosity, openness to learning together, creativity, resilience, and decisiveness to experiment and commit to action are essential. The team can learn, pivot, and adapt. The team can accelerate, transform, and achieve the unimaginable! And it’s time to put these traits in action as you prepare for next year!