55: How to Lead in Crisis, with Carol Taylor
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2012
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Carol Taylor: Vanguard University
Leaders face difficult situations when their organizations struggle through budgetary challenges. My guest, Carol Taylor, is all too familiar with such challenges and tells the story of the crisis that faced Vanguard University when she was appointed president. She is the author of Leading a Turnaround and the Joy of a Third Class Ticket found in Thriving Leadership edited by Karen Longman, and joins me on this episode to share her leadership journey at Vanguard.
Two challenges for you after listening to today’s show:
- Visit the Vanguard University website for inspiration on what wonderful work they are doing since emerging from this crisis
- Share this episode with someone who is leading through a challenging time or crisis
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to coaching for leaders. This is episode number 55 |
| 0:04.2 | airing on September 17th 2012. |
| 0:07.8 | Produced by Innovate Learning |
| 0:10.4 | Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Coaching for Leaders. |
| 0:19.0 | This is the show for Leaders who want to improve themselves |
| 0:22.0 | so they can better engage and develop others. |
| 0:26.2 | Whether you're a season leader or leading people for the first time, improving your leadership |
| 0:31.0 | skills will drive your success and most importantly the success of others. |
| 0:36.4 | This week's topic, how to lead in a crisis. |
| 0:39.8 | Well hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Coaching for Leaders. |
| 0:47.0 | My name is Dave Stahoviac, and I'm coming to you from our studio out here in Orange County, California, where like many places in the world, |
| 0:56.6 | the economy has not recovered. And in fact, it has been a very challenging economic situation here in Orange County for the past three, four, five years really, like many, many places in North America and across the globe. |
| 1:12.0 | And it has been a very challenging time for |
| 1:14.9 | organizations here as it has been in many places around the world for a whole |
| 1:19.4 | host of reasons, economic related and otherwise. And that's one of the reasons that I've |
| 1:25.4 | been meaning to look at for some time is how leaders have worked through the |
| 1:31.2 | challenges that face them in their organizations these days |
| 1:34.8 | and in some cases the crises that they are facing and how they've worked through |
| 1:39.9 | those challenges and crises as a leader. |
| 1:43.8 | And we could look at that in a whole bunch of different ways. |
| 1:47.0 | One of them is we could look at all the theories and research and books that have been |
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