Leading through Challenging Times

Program Experience

Highlights and Key Outcomes

In Leading through Challenging Times, you will:

• Become a more effective and resilient leader
• Identify best practices for leading through uncertainty and difficulty
• Take tangible actions to bolster your own leadership and that of others
• Expand your professional network to include peers with strategic vision and resilience
• Expand your readiness and determination to face uncertainty and stress
• Hone your ability to assist others in responding to and preparing for crises, expand your readiness and determination to face uncertainty and stress, and assist others in doing the same

Senior managers seeking to lead through these times will require skills both like and unlike what they have already developed. They need to think even more strategically about the future, communicate more persuasively, and act more decisively — all while strengthening the leadership of those around them.

Leading through Challenging Times draws on the tried and proven as well as on new studies and fresh insights — along with participant experience and pivotal moments in history — to fortify your own leadership and leadership through others.

Session Topics Include:

• Leading Yourself and Others
• Emotional Intelligence, Resilience, Recovery, and Contagion
• Leading and Influencing Virtual Teams
• Leading a Vigilant and Vision-Driven Organization
• Motivating Others through Difficult Times

The program draws on digital technologies, hands-on experiences, business and historical cases, research findings, intensive dialogue, and problem solving. Our sessions run live for four days, and we include chat rooms, breakouts, issue polling, and personal engagements. We draw on in-depth cases from companies in turbulence, explorers in terra incognito, and executive speakers who have led through challenging periods in recent business history.

Leadership is personal, both for you and for those you lead. Join us to share and reflect on the leadership experiences of you and others in leading through these challenging times.

Convince Your Supervisor

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Due to our application review period, applications submitted after 12:00 p.m. ET on Friday for programs beginning the following Monday may not be processed in time to grant admission. Applicants will be contacted by a member of our Client Relations Team to discuss options for future programs and dates.