Describe the challenge
Identify what has changed and how it affects the people, plans or responsibilities involved.
Resilience
Adversity to Advantage
Use guided discussion to examine what can be learned or changed during adversity.
By John C. Maxwell
What this programme helps you work on.
Adversity can reveal assumptions, needs or possibilities that routine work hides. This discussion within Leading Through Crisis explores what can be learned or changed during difficulty. Participants examine possibilities while remaining realistic about the challenge and the resources available.
Who it suits
Groups exploring opportunities in adversity.
The focus
Perspective, practical choices and opportunity, as part of Leading Through Crisis.
Inside the programme
What you’ll explore.
These themes guide the learning. The depth and selection depend on the format and the needs you bring.
Look for learning
Consider what the experience reveals about existing habits, dependencies and choices.
Explore a useful opportunity
Discuss an improvement or possibility that responds to a real need, rather than forcing a positive interpretation.
Choose a proportionate step
Identify what can be tried now and what evidence would help you judge its usefulness.
From ideas to action
Put it into practice.
Identify a useful opportunity and a realistic next step.
An example to work through
If disruption exposes a fragile handover process, examine what the team has learned and test one simpler way to transfer essential information before changing the whole system.
This is an example of local application. We adapt the discussion to your situation and agreed scope.
Your practical takeaways
What you’ll work towards.
- A lesson or opportunity connected to a real difficulty.
- A realistic next step within current resources.
- A way to review whether the change is useful.
The learning experience
How it works.
Facilitated learning combines explanation, discussion and reflection on participants’ own situations. Where the agreed format allows, you practise an application and decide what to try at work. Scope, duration and any follow-up are agreed around the group’s needs.