Lead yourself under pressure
Examine how your response affects the team and identify the habits that help you make considered decisions.
Resilience
Leading in Tough Times
Explore how to lead yourself and support your team under pressure.
By John C. Maxwell
What this programme helps you work on.
When conditions become difficult, people look to leaders for clarity and a workable response. Leading in Tough Times explores self-leadership, teamwork, motivation and decisions under pressure. Participants consider how to acknowledge a difficult reality while giving the team useful direction and support.
Who it suits
Leaders guiding teams through difficult conditions.
The focus
Teamwork, motivation, strategy, communication and decisions.
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.
Communicate the reality
Practise explaining what is known, what is uncertain and why the next priority matters.
Support teamwork and motivation
Consider what colleagues need to contribute, stay informed and help one another through difficult conditions.
Choose a practical strategy
Identify the immediate priority, available resources and decisions that need to be reviewed as circumstances change.
From ideas to action
Put it into practice.
Explain a difficult reality and choose a concrete way to support the team.
An example to work through
Prepare a team briefing about a significant constraint, such as reduced capacity. Explain the situation, identify the work that matters most and invite the information you need to make realistic decisions.
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 clearer leadership priority during a difficult period.
- A practical message for the team.
- A concrete support action and a decision to review.
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.