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Leading People in Uncertain Times
Become a confident leader who keeps people engaged and performing under pressure.
The Key Issues
The world is unpredictable. Your people are worried, tired and a bit lost. And yet — performance expectations haven’t dropped. You’re expected to drive, motivate, guide and lead the team in this new uncertainty.
You’re expected to be the anchor when everything around you is unstable.
This programme helps you lead with resilience, clarity, empathy and accountability when your team needs you most. You learn how to motivate, reduce anxiety, maintain engagement, and keep performance steady — even when the environment is anything but.
Communicating clearly
Coaching under pressure
Leading with empathy
Key Competences
Managing stress and fatigue
Maintaining trust and engagement
The Right Programme for You
You need to communicate difficult messages without damaging trust. You’re dealing with fatigue, disengagement or rising conflict in your teams. You manage people who are under pressure. You want to lead with steadiness, not stress.
- Business Professionals
- New Managers
- Managers
- Senior Managers
Highlights
Learn, Practice and Use
- Interpreting uncertain situations, identifying their impact on engagement and performance, and act on early signals
- Apply self-regulation principles to maintain effective leadership presence and composure in stressful times
- Develop clear and credible communication techniques to give teams stability
- Hold people accountable through clear and adaptable expectations without breaking trust or triggering disengagement
- Apply coaching skills to restore and unlock confidence and performance under pressure
Programme Details
This programme helps you lead with resilience, clarity, empathy and accountability when your team needs you most. You learn how to motivate, reduce anxiety, maintain engagement, and keep performance steady — even when the environment is anything but.
Six Programme Modules
1 | Understanding the Human Impact of Uncertainty
- Explain how uncertainty sets off the brain’s threat response and how this affects people’s behaviour, motivation and performance.
- Differentiate between productive pressure and harmful overload by examining your own team for early signals of stress, fatigue and disengagement.
- Plan targeted re-engagement actions that match the signals you observe before issues turn into conflict or people leaving.
2 | Staying Composed When Everyone Looks to You
- Identify your personal emotional triggers and early warning signs.
- Use self-regulation and energy-management techniques to stay calm and credible under pressure.
- Design a personal resilience plan that keeps you composed over time.
3 | Leading With Clarity When People Feel Lost
- Explain why purpose, transparency and leadership presence give people stability when the future is unclear.
- Turn an uncertain strategic topic into an effective message.
- Build a communication plan for your key stakeholders.
4 | Coaching When Time Is Short and Pressure Is High
- Distinguish coaching from mentoring and directing, and structured coaching from compassionate coaching.
- Run a focused short coaching conversation.
- Adjust your approach for difficult or overwhelmed team members.
5 | Building Accountability Without Breaking Trust
- Diagnose the behaviours that signal dysfunction in your team and decide how to address them.
- Set clear expectations for a team member.
- Hold an accountability conversation using the feedforward.
6 | Bringing It All Together
- Summarise your key learnings from the programme.
- Formulate a Commitment Contract with specific short- and long-term actions and the results you expect.
Faculty
Scheduled Programmes
Choose your learning format
- 3 days
- €3,995
- 6 sessions
- €3,995
- This programme can also be delivered exclusively for your team at your company location or online.
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