#571 How to Get Better at Holding Uncertainty at Work

Uncertainty isn't going anywhere. So what if the goal wasn't to get rid of it, but to get better at holding it?

In this episode, Helen and Sarah borrow brilliance from a feeling and dive deep into one of the most relevant topics in work and careers right now.

Drawing on Margaret Heffernan's Embracing Uncertainty, Sam Conniff and Katherine Templar-Lewis's Uncertainty Toolkit, and a brilliant HBR article, they explore what it really means to develop the capacity to hold uncertainty, and what your default response to it reveals about you.

🎯 What You'll Learn

– Why the goal isn't uncertainty to certainty, but uncertainty to the capacity to hold

– How to find your own uncertainty tolerance score (with an AI prompt on the podsheet to help)

– Why leaders feel more pressure than most to appear decisive, and what the research says about that

– How to use a simple matrix to plot your uncertainty by impact and duration, and respond differently depending on which quadrant you're in

– Why patience might be the most underrated skill in uncertain times, and how Helen and Sarah both score themselves on it

– What it means to reframe uncertainty as opportunity rather than threat

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