What is it Like to be in Difficult Times? A Resilience Programme for Managers

Linda Saulīte

It has never been easy to be a manager in times of crisis. Currently, companies and teams are encountering unprecedented challenges and the role of the manager is especially important in overcoming them. More than ever, the manager is the source of credibility, security, strength and energy for their team. Calmness, decisiveness, a positive outlook, and the ability to make the right decisions, at a time when much is unknown, is expected from them.

How to acquire and maintain the internal strength, resilience and energy to go on? What are the most important qualities of a manager nowadays? How to lead oneself and one team through different stages of a crisis?

And the most important thing - how to be strong at times when you must be the strongest?

Target audience: managers at various levels and decision makers.

Benefits:

• Greater personal resilience and flexibility.
• An understanding about a manager’s role and actions at different stages of a crisis.
• Better quality decision making.

Duration: 1 day, 5 hours

Programme:

1.  Resilient or flexible leadership.

• How to develop oneself and integrate resilience or internal strength into the team
• What develops a manager's resilience? 6 basic elements. How to work with each of them?
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and development.
• The main thinking traps, the manager’s internal game and the development of a secure foundation.

2.  A team's needs and the manager’s actions in crises.

• The stages or phases of a crisis, the team’s needs and the manager’s actions in each stage.
• The greatest challenge – Stage 2. How to recognize it and lead oneself and the team through it? 3 steps.
• How to develop a manager’s resilient thinking in challenges? 4 basic elements in developing resilient thinking.

3.  Decision-making in uncertainty. 

• How to develop trust and security within a team in uncertain times?
• Mistakes in thinking and decision-making techniques.
• Practical exercises for identifying mistakes and for effective decision-making.

The online seminar will take place on the ZOOM site. Ensure that your computer has a good internet connection, camera, headphones and a microphone. The online link will be sent to you by email.

If this is required at the corporate level, the programme can be adapted to the specific nature and needs of the company.