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Advice for Leaders During a Crisis

Madecraft

Advice for Leaders During a Crisis

Madecraft

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6 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

6 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Manage your stress response and support your team's wellbeing when a crisis puts everyone under sustained pressure.

  • Gather reliable information, evaluate trends, and make sound decisions when certainty is not available.

  • Redefine success, restore team autonomy, and stay forward focused when the original plan no longer fits.

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July 2026

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There are 6 modules in this course

Your team is watching how you respond right now. In this module, you'll build the core skills for leading through crisis: supporting your team's fundamental needs, overcoming resistance to rapid change, modeling calm under pressure, protecting your own wellbeing, and communicating with purpose and consistency.

What's included

8 videos4 readings2 assignments

When a crisis hits, the information environment becomes as chaotic as the crisis itself. In this module, you'll build the skills to cut through the noise: recognizing how crises generate emotional and cognitive pressure, sourcing and filtering reliable information, distinguishing data from trends, making decisions with incomplete information, and capturing what you learn so the next crisis finds you better prepared.

What's included

5 videos4 readings2 assignments

Stress is not just something your team feels; it shows up in how they think, communicate, and function together. In this module, you'll apply neuroscience-grounded practices to recognize stress in yourself and your team and restore the balance, creativity, and connection that crisis conditions can erode.

What's included

6 videos4 readings2 assignments

When a crisis hits, the financial landscape shifts fast: markets drop, goals become irrelevant, and the definition of success has to change. In this module, you'll build the financial perspective to stay grounded under volatility: reading how markets behave during and after a crisis, communicating a new definition of winning to your team, and setting goals that are meaningful and achievable when the original plan no longer fits.

What's included

3 videos1 reading2 assignments

When a crisis hits, the instinct is to react, but the leaders who navigate it best pause, find clarity, and bring their teams into the process rather than shutting them out. In this module, you'll apply a practical framework for adjusting your approach under pressure: gathering reliable information, activating contingency thinking, reclaiming a sense of agency, and preserving the team autonomy that sustains performance when everything else feels uncertain.

What's included

4 videos2 readings2 assignments

A crisis often does not resolve cleanly, and the leaders who hold their teams together are the ones who stay forward focused: not on what is happening or why, but on where they are going and what they can solve next. In this final module, you'll consolidate everything you have built across the course into a single forward-focused plan for the crisis you are leading through right now.

What's included

1 video1 assignment

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