Leading Through Resilience and Agility

Management & Leadership

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Introduction

We live in a fast-changing world. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us all those things can change very rapidly & without warning. But it is not just pandemics. Geopolitics, social and environmental changes, new business regulation and much, much more. Therefore, it is crucial that the leaders of today must be both resilient and agile. When sudden change occurs, people look to their leaders, and if the leader falls apart, very quickly the organization will too.

This 'Leading Through Resilience and Agility' training course will help you prepare for the future by building and developing your resilience and agility to tackle whatever challenges the world will throw at us next. You will learn how to build personal resilience to withstand the pressures of leading through a VUCA age and give you the confidence and ability to quickly adapt to any situation.  Using agility to take on board new challenges and give clarity and direction when it is needed most.

Objectives

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

Course Outline

Day One: 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

Day Two: 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

Day Three: 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 quicky assess risk versus outcomes

Day Four: 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

Day Five: 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