Courageous Leadership

ZOP1005: Courageous Leadership

Program Overview

Leaders are unrelentingly in the spotlight in times of change and uncertainty. We have high expectations of leaders creating vision, setting direction and delivering results while providing inspiration and guiding us through more and more challenging terrain. But when the pressure and spotlight are on you as leader, leadership takes real courage. Courage to make tough decisions, courage to challenge, courage to step outside your comfort zone and most of all, courage to stay true to yourself and your values.

This workshop builds on Authentic Leadership to give you the opportunity to reflect on your “authentic” leadership style and learn how to pro actively build your ability to “survive and thrive” so that you can be at your best… more often.

The workshop will look at how stress can impact the decisions we make as leaders; how under day-to-day pressures, leaders can fail to see the obvious, make suboptimal decisions or avoid making decisions at all. We will also explore the importance of perspective, how we view and assess situations, and learn how -- by shifting our thinking -- we can build the courage to continue to challenge ourselves and others.

Participants will have an opportunity to see how their thoughts, feelings and behaviours shift under high pressure through participating in a complex business simulation. This will be observed by highly trained coaches who will give timely, in the moment feedback… an invaluable learning experience.

There is also reflection time provided, so that each participant will get the valuable commodity of ‘time’ to think about their personal journey and what needs to be put in place to make the decisions of courageous leaders.

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Content

• Exploring helpful/ less helpful leadership behaviours for dealing with challenging times and learning how to build on positive, productive behaviours using tools such as LSI 360
• Developing useful self regulation strategies that will build leadership ability to operate effectively under pressure and conflict
• Making more powerful (and effective) decisions through understanding how your brain, and therefore your thinking, is impacted under pressure.
• The role and importance of mindset , mindfulness and learned optimism to navigate a variety of situations from dealing with a relentless workload, to constructively handling ongoing difficulties, disappointments, poor performance and so on
• Dealing with uncertainty through exploring perspective, how we interpret “reality” and the importance of purpose and meaning.

Highlights:

• Self regulation – techniques and tools – including use of bio feedback machines that measure an individual’s variable heart rate
• Introduction to short, practical, and highly effective meditation techniques
• Opportunities to test a toolkit of mental and emotional skills and techniques that will help you build your leadership capability
• A lively and engaging business simulation lasting 0.75 day
• Observation of and personal feedback to participants
• Opportunity to share experiences and strategies with senior managers/executives from a cross section of business environments.
  

Learning Outcomes

• An increased understanding of how your brain works under pressure
• LSI to be completed as part of the program unless already completed within 12 months of the program)
• An understanding of how you behave differently under pressure and how to self regulate
• An understanding of resilience, its impact on leadership and how to develop it
• A tool kit of practical strategies and techniques to lead courageously
• A clear idea of decision making as a leader
• A practical personal development plan.

Nationally Recognised

Residential

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