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Calm Under Pressure
A hands-on workshop for managers who need to make good decisions when everything is urgent.
from £3,200
What your audience takes away
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How to run a calm meeting when the news is bad
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Your own pressure plan to take home
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A working session, not a lecture
Calm Under Pressure is a half-day workshop for leadership teams of 10 to 40 people. It is built around real decisions your managers are facing right now, so people leave with a plan rather than a page of notes.
How the session runs
We start with a five-minute decision routine that works when everything feels urgent. Then the group practises running a calm meeting with bad news, using scripts they can adapt. In the last hour, every participant writes a one-page pressure plan for their own team and tests it with a partner.
What we tailor
Before the day, Hannah reads a short brief about your team and two or three live situations you want to work on. The case studies, the practice meetings and the workbook are rewritten around them.
What people take home
Every participant leaves with the workbook, a filled-in pressure plan for their own team and two meeting scripts they have already practised. A month later, Hannah sends a short follow-up with three questions for the group to discuss, so the habits survive the first busy week back at work.
Groups larger than 40 can book two sessions on the same day.
The goal is not to remove pressure. It is to make good decisions while it is there.
The best-rated session of our conference, for the second year running.
Tom Ellery
Head of Events
Northern Leaders Summit
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