MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Support Your Team When Uncertainty Is High

“My team seems really anxious,” a manager recently told me. “We just went through a reorg, and there are a lot of concerns about the future. I want to give everyone some kind of assurance, but I don’t really know what’s going to happen in six months either. What can I do?”

If you’ve found yourself in a similar situation recently, you’re not alone. Almost every people leader I’ve met with over the past year has asked me some version of this question. And in a recent study, 89% of HR leaders shared that their teams have voiced concerns about job security, leadership changes, or reorgs.

About the Author

Liz Fosslien (@fosslien) is an expert on emotions at work and the coauthor and illustrator of The Wall Street Journal bestseller No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotion at Work (Portfolio, 2019) and Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay (Portfolio, 2022). She is also on the leadership team of Atlassian’s Team Anywhere and previously served as the head of content and communications at Humu.

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