Navigating Uncertainty: Team Resilience And Foresight With Kian Gohar

In these fast-paced times that we live in, the key to keeping your organization standing is team resilience. Kian Gohar is a futurist who inspires organizations to harness the power of possibility and innovation to build transformative futures. He is the founder of Geolab, an innovation research, coaching, and leadership development firm. In this episode, he chats with host Adam Markel to expound on team resilience and how leaders and managers can instill this within their organizations. The two also discuss how this plays into creating high-performance teams and why recovery periods are a necessity. Kian also touches on the skill of foresight in staying resilient amidst uncertainty and shares different practices that will help businesses develop this skill to pivot faster and better during crises. There are plenty of gold nuggets you won’t want to miss in today’s episode. Stay tuned to learn more about the leader’s role in creating a resilient high-performing team.

Show Notes:

• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:21 What’s not in Kian’s bio
• 02:50 Defining resilience
• 06:57 Individual vs team resilience
• 13:26 Taking responsibility for each other in a team
• 21:06 Asking the right question matters
• 23:27 High-performing teams and recovery for resilience
• 27:07 Relationship between uncertainty and resilience
• 28:12 The skill of foresight
• 31:20 Practicing foresight and adaptability
• 47:18 Emotional and psychological safety in a team
• 40:21 Growing in resilience virtually as a team
• 46:05 Closing Thoughts