Leading Through Resilience and Agility

Objective:

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

• Have a deep understanding of personal resilience
• Have developed a range of highly effective skills and strategies to enable you to adapt with speed
• Be able to effectively analyze, plan and prepare for change
• Have become a more effective and confident leader
• Have enhanced ability to gain the trust of others

Content:

Introduction to Personal Resilience

• Defining resilience
• Why resilience is so important to the modern leader
• Discover how to build personal resilience
• Knowing your inner strengths and values
• Taking responsibility for your mind and attitude
• The psychology behavioral patterns when sudden change occurs
• Remaining calm when others are panicking around you
• Mindfulness and the ability to take yourself out of a situation

Understanding Behavioral Styles When Under Pressure

• Knowing and understanding your own behavioral style
• Negotiation Style Assessment
• Approaches to deal with different behavioral styles
• Team mapping for fast deployment
• Winning over those in power
• Developing a communication style that wins trust
• Assertively giving directions to others
• Developing your key strengths

Developing Agility

• Defining agility
• Understanding the importance of agility to modern leaders
• Discover the characteristics of agile leaders
• Gain the confidence to take decisions under pressure
• Dealing with high pressure environments
• Quickly adapting to unforeseen challenges
• Knowing and maintaining your sources of inner power
• The ability to quickly assess risk versus outcomes

Building Resilient and Agile Teams

• Emotional Intelligence and its role in building agile teams
• Creating an agile team environment
• Giving greater autonomy to team members
• Developing mindfulness as a strategy for team resilience
• How to use meetings to talk openly about feelings
• Developing effective feedback loops
• Rewarding those who show resilience and agility

Dealing with Overthinking, Worry and Stress

• Learn the difference between concern, worry and stress
• Living in day-tight compartments
• Learn the common signs of stress in yourself and others
• Understanding the worry loop and how to get out of it
• Practical steps to overcome worry
• Dealing with acute stress