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
Testimonials (4)
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Gilbert Pineda - Quartzelec Ltd (Philippines Branch)
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Clearly explained theory combined with trainer enthusiastically recounting his past experience, making the concepts much more relatable / memorable. Friendly and passionate trainer.
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Jubilee Petil - Accenture Inc.
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