A Highly Interactive Training Course On
Leading Under Pressure
Lead Confidently Under Pressure and Crisis Situations
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Course Introduction
The Leading Under Pressure training course is designed to help leaders excel under stressful and high-pressure situations. Participants will explore how to remain composed and make effective decisions while managing both personal and team stress. By understanding how stress affects leadership performance, you will gain practical tools to enhance resilience, maintain focus, and foster confidence in yourself and your team.
Through interactive sessions, real-life scenarios, and actionable strategies, this course equips leaders to handle crises with clarity and authority. You will uncover techniques to transform challenges into growth opportunities, ensuring both personal and organizational success during demanding situations.
Key Highlights of This Training Course:
- Understand how pressure and stress impact leadership performance and team dynamics
- Identify personality styles and their responses to stress to lead more effectively
- Develop practical strategies for managing crises and unexpected challenges
- Enhance communication, decision-making, and problem-solving under pressure
- Learn how to maintain resilience and a positive mindset during high-stress scenarios
Modules
This training course is split into two modules:
MODULE I - Leadership Excellence in Handling Pressure & Stress
MODULE II - Strategic Crisis Management, Incorporating Security & Major Emergency Response
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
Training Objectives
This Leading Under Pressure training course aims to empower leaders with the skills and knowledge needed to manage themselves and their teams in challenging situations. By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Build leadership skills tailored for high-pressure environments
- Recognize how different personality types respond to stress and adapt leadership approaches accordingly
- Acquire an in-depth understanding of strategic crisis management principles
- Implement effective strategies for organizational and personal stress response
- Identify the five deadly leadership behaviors and apply six winning strategies during crises
- Strengthen team collaboration, motivation, and performance under pressure
Training Methodology
The course uses a hands-on, interactive approach to develop leadership skills under pressure. Participants engage in practical exercises, case studies, role-playing, and scenario-based workshops to simulate real-life challenges. This ensures the learning experience is highly immersive and immediately applicable to the workplace.
In addition, the training emphasizes self-reflection and personal development. By understanding your strengths, weaknesses, and natural stress responses, you can build the confidence to lead effectively during crises. Discussions, group exercises, and expert guidance provide participants with tools to handle stress, improve decision-making, and foster team resilience.
Who should Attend?
This Leading Under Pressure training course is ideal for professionals looking to enhance their leadership capabilities in high-stress environments. Whether you are currently in a leadership role or preparing for one, this course provides essential insights into managing stress and leading effectively.
Ideal Participants Include:
- Individuals currently holding leadership roles
- Team leaders and managers responsible for guiding others
- Employees being groomed for leadership positions
- Professionals working closely with teams or in collaborative environments
- Anyone seeking practical strategies for managing personal and organizational stress
- Professionals aiming to improve decision-making during high-pressure situations
Course Outline
- Understanding stress and its impact on the body, mind, and spirit
- Adopting a holistic approach to responding to stress
- Exploring the connection between mental and physical well-being
- Identifying personality styles and their reactions to stress
- Transforming stressful situations into growth opportunities
- Leading teams effectively under intense pressure
- Understanding passive and aggressive behavioral responses
- Applying assertive communication in high-stress environments
- Managing conflict effectively during periods of stress
- Providing and receiving feedback in stressful circumstances
- Maintaining healthy body and mind practices
- Building and sustaining a healthy lifestyle
- Managing and adapting to sudden change
- Guiding others through unexpected transitions
- Identifying short-term and long-term symptoms of stress
- Motivating yourself and others under pressure
- Maintaining a positive and focused mindset
- Demonstrating confident leadership
- Developing core crisis management competencies
- Identifying opportunities for improvement during a crisis
- Encouraging teams to explore creative solutions
- Applying creative leadership approaches in crisis situations
- Eliminating barriers to innovative solutions during crises
- Strengthening creative leadership effectiveness
- Training and developing employees to cope with stress and pressure
- Applying stress management techniques for leaders and teams
- Supporting teams in recognizing the positive aspects of workplace change
- Implementing creative problem-solving strategies during crises
- Enhancing team performance under stress
- Creating a personalized action plan
- Grasping the principles of Strategic Crisis Management
- Reviewing the full spectrum of risks facing your organisation
- Roles and responsibilities of CMT and ERT
- Mastering issues management before they escalate into a crisis
- Identifying internal and external stakeholders who should be engaged
- Recognising five critical leadership pitfalls and six effective strategies
- Understanding the ‘denial-curve’ and ‘group-think’ phenomena
- Security management and safeguarding organisational assets
- Case studies illustrating why some organisations fail while others endure
- Self-assessment questionnaire based on insights from the previous module
- Developing, refining, and implementing effective Emergency Response Plans
- Strategies for Business Continuity Management (BCM)
- Case study analysis and practical workshop
- Overview of Incident Command Systems (ICS)
- Key elements of effective on-scene crisis management
- Best practices for Emergency Communication Centres and common pitfalls to avoid
- Reputation management and handling social media during crises
- Step-by-step guidance on conducting press conferences and TV interviews
- Case study discussion
- Practical exercise: Developing a crisis communications strategy
- Alerting and warning procedures
- Evacuation planning and strategies
- Major incident simulation through role-playing exercises
- Addressing psychological and welfare considerations in crisis management
- Techniques to enhance staff morale and confidence in processes
- Self-assessment questionnaire: Are your operational ‘batteries’ fully charged?
- Corporate case study: When governance decisions fail
- Analysis of three case studies with identical root causes to assess learning outcomes
- Practical exercises for validating plans and reinforcing learning
- Strategies to maximise the benefits of crisis exercises
- Conducting post-incident evaluations, debriefing, and managing both immediate and delayed feedback
- Preparing critique reports, executive summaries, and actionable recommendations
- Closing the loop: Implementing recommendations and sustaining the process
Providers and Associations
Certificates
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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