Resillient Leadership Programme

Resilient Leadership Programmes

 

For many people in leadership positions both work and life are becoming more challenging and many now report that they are becoming increasingly stressed. Mental Toughness is a significant factor in determining how a person responds to stress, pressure and challenge – and how that impacts on performance, wellbeing and positive behaviours.

 

This programme combines elements from both our mental toughness and leadership programmes to equip leaders develop strategies and plans to help them perform under pressure, and to support others around them. This leads to better performance, wellbeing and, in many instances, an improved work life balance. They will learn to approach challenge, stress & pressure with a positive ‘can do’ attitude.

 

Outline content:

 

Understanding Stress Pressure and Challenge

  • Sources of stress pressure and challenge
  • Their impact – good and bad
  • Identifying the main issue for you

 

Understanding how People respond to stress, pressure and challenge

  • The key factors - Personality and Mental Toughness, etc
  • What is mental toughness?
  • What is your mental toughness?
  • Identifying your development needs – the priorities and the benefits of so doing

 

Understanding what makes effective leaders

  • 3 global scales – determination to Deliver, Engaging with individuals and Engaging with Teams
  • Understanding Motivation – Maslow & Hertzberg
  • Mental Toughness and effective leadership – “keeping your head when others are losing theirs”

 

Developing Mental Toughness – simple accessible tools and techniques around these core themes - 

  • Positive Thinking
  • Visualisation
  • Attentional Control
  • Anxiety Control
  • Practical Goal setting
  • Biofeedback

 

Developing Mental Toughness – complementary tools and techniques

  • Fatigue – State & Trait – leading edge work on impact of stress
  • Procrastination & Time Management
  • Team Toughness

 

Action Planning

  • Milestones – short term and longer term strategies
  • Targeting for success
  • Importance of discipline
  • Review and reward

 

The programme has been developed as a 2 day programme, but may be delivered as a condensed version over one day. It can be extended with one to one coaching. There is also a train the trainer version for coaches trainers and facilitators which is designed to enable participants to effectively deliver the workshop.

 

The programme is usually run is an in-house course to enable the content to be adapted to what is required specifically for the client. However we do run generic open versions (particularly the trainer the trainer version so please check our Events page