Course Outline

Module 1:

Leadership Excellence in Handling Pressure & Stress

Day 1:

Personal Leadership Skills for Handling Pressure & Stress

  • Stress and its effects on the body, mind and spirit
  • Holistic response to stress
  • Relationship between mind and body
  • Personality styles and response to stress
  • Understanding Introvert and Extravert responses to stress

Day 2:

Enhancing Communication Skills In Times of Stress

  • Passive & aggressive responses
  • Assertive communication during stressful times
  • Managing conflicts during times of stress
  • Giving and receiving criticisms during stressful moments
  • Resolving conflicts constructively during times of pressure

Day 3:

Leading with Confidence During Challenging Times

  • Coping with sudden change
  • Leading others during sudden changes
  • Recognizing the symptoms of short term and long term effects of stress
  • Motivating yourself and others under pressure
  • Building confidence during stressful times

Day 4:

Improving Leadership Effectiveness in Managing Crisis

  • Utilizing creativity in crisis
  • Recognizing opportunities for change in a crisis
  • Helping the team look for creative opportunities
  • Practicing creative leadership in facing a crisis
  • Removing blocks to creative solutions in a crisis

Day 5:

Developing & Training Your Team to Handle Pressure, Stress, and Crisis

  • Training and developing employees to handle stress and pressure
  • Stress handling techniques for you and your employees
  • Helping the team to see the positive side of change in the workplace
  • Implementing creative problem-solving skills for your team when facing a crisis
  • Developing a personal action plan

Module 2:

Strategic Crisis Management

Day 6:

What should be in place before the event?

  • Understanding Crisis Management
    • How to manage a crisis?
    • Virtually every crisis contains the seeds of success as well as the roots of failure
    • The Rationale of the Crisis Manager
  • Consider the range of risks: Natural/Environmental; Hazards; Technological - loss of utilities/product/process/plant; Human Error; Sabotage and Terrorism
  • Crisis Managers - Roles & Responsibilities - manage the issue before it becomes a Crisis
  • Who else inside and outside the organization should be involved?
  • Evaluating your risks and vulnerabilities; Consider the worse-case scenarios
  • Understanding 'denial-curve' and 'group-think' syndromes
  • Who decides who sits in the 'hot-seat'?
  • Case Studies, why some companies fail and others survive?

Day 7:

Pre-planning, who and what else should be considered?

  • Who owns the mitigation process?
    • Self-evaluating questionnaires
  • Developing and Implementing Emergency Plans
  • Twelve point checklist covering the whole planning process
  • Mutual Aid arrangements
  • Company-wide strategic contingency plans
  • Service or departmental plans
  • Building evacuation plans
  • Crisis Management and Communications Emergency Centre/s
  • Developing and implementing a Business Continuity Management (BCM) strategy
  • Business Impact Analysis. Case Study and Workshop

Day 8:

Dealing with a crisis - the 'communications' perspective

  • Command and Control Issues
    • Operational (at the scene)
    • Tactical (at the forward control point/incident command)
    • Strategic (boardroom level/emergency operations center)
  • On Scene Crisis Management, essential elements for success
  • Reputation Management - Managing the Media. 'How to' sessions include
  • Organizing a Press Conference
  • Conducting Radio and Television Interviews
  • Case Study Exercise: Crisis Communications Strategy. Develop a crisis communications strategy and action plan based upon a given scenario

Day 9:

Incident Management & Aftermath

  • Alerting and Warning. Case Studies. What can go right and what can go wrong
  • Case Studies - Texas City Disasters 1947 and April 2005
  • Major Incident Simulation - Role Playing Workshop
    • Syndicate selection
    • Reporting back
  • Potential Psychological & Welfare problems in Crisis Management
  • How to improve staff morale and confidence in the process
  • The psychological effects during and after an incident involving injuries - and worse
  • Looking after yourself and your staff
  • Questionnaire, are your batteries in good condition?

Day 10:

Leadership Behavior and Behavioral Safety

  • Validating plans and procedures
    • Discuss the four types of exercise
    • How to get the most out of an exercise
  • Post Incident evaluations
  • De-briefing skills - managing the de-briefs - hot and cold
  • How to keep all 'stakeholders' informed
  • Prioritizing the Recommendations
  • Examples of critique questionnaires
  • Critique report writing, executive summaries, and recommendations
  • Closing the loop. How to continue the process
  • Case Study
  • Open Forum Time Permitting
 70 Hours

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