Leadership Under Pressure
It's more than just a course.
This is a learning journey.
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Course Code: OV-LUP
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2 x half-day live session delivered virtually or in-person | 6-8 hrs on-demand learning | 30-minute coaching session (optional extra for teams)
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This is available for individuals, groups and teams
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Part of our Core Library
This course will help you to develop the leadership skills you need to lead successfully through times of pressure, stress and crisis. You will learn how our brains react to uncertainty and stressful situations and how to spot the warning signs early. You will then define how to move yourself and your teams through the necessary emotional changes, using your emotional intelligence and helping others to build their resilience in order for them to maintain high performance. During the course, you will work with a range of scenarios to evaluate different leadership approaches that you can then apply to your own teams. You will also explore a set of building blocks that support the development of an effective and resilient team and will consider how to leverage the intrinsic drivers that motivate people to perform under pressure.
This session is suitable for leaders who are focused on maintaining individual and team performance during a time of pressure, stress or crisis.
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Identify the signs of stress and decide when and how to intervene
- Demonstrate emotional resilience in times of uncertainty
- Formulate and implement a stress management plan
- Guide others to reflect positively on adverse experiences
- Develop a sense of purpose and psychological safety for your team
- Use coaching questions to guide people through a challenging situation
- Take action to maximise the dynamics of high performing teams
- Identify actions to increase motivation when under pressure
Build a customised programme
Use our building blocks approach to create a customised programme to suit your specific needs and context, at the pace you need.
Talk to us about what you want to achieve.

Step 1
Choose the core blocks you want (from our content library)

Step 2
Consider what blocks you want to customise (to make it your own)

Step 3
Review any additional technology and support services we can help you with (to bring the truly bring the learning experience to life)

Step 4
We’ll create the optimum journey for your learners
Want to co-create?
Let's talkThe building blocks menu of options
To help achieve the pace and agility you need, we encourage you to make use of what we already have (our core library) and make it your own. There’s no need to ‘recreate the wheel’ - build from what we have ‘ready to go’ and then customise what you need to.
Choose from across our range of 100+ core topic areas.
Online self-study:
- Fluidbooks
- Infographics (standard and HTML)
- Thrive in Five
- Videos/animations
- Quizzes & assessments
- Podcasts
- Digital flip cards
- HTML microsites
- Digital adventures
- Applying what you have learned - action learning prompts/exercises
- All assets under a topic/collection
Live expert-led:
- Pre-built team experience (learning journey)
- Live workshops - virtual or in-person training (1 x half-day live session in a day; 2 x half-day live session in a day)
- Bitesize (1 x 90-min bite-size session in a day; 2 x 90-min bite-size session in a day; 3 x 90-min bite-size session in a day)
- Run-it-yourself
- Coaching – per hour (Follow-up; Learning programme; Transitioning together; Team effectiveness; Career coaching; Leadership & executive; Skills performance coaching)
- Group facilitation sessions (1 x 3hr in a day; 2 x 3hr in a day
- Leadership lab session (1 x 3hr in a day; 2 x 3hr in a day)
- Virtual delivery platform licence
Personalisation for live events:
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- Tailored
- Branded
- Fully customised
Bespoke content creation:
- Fluidbooks
- Infographics (standard and HTML)
- Thrive in Five
- Videos/animations
- Quizzes & assessments
- Podcasts with bespoke or your content
- Digital flip cards
- HTML microsites
- Digital adventures
- Digital badges/certificates
- Live expert-led bite-size or workshop session
Bespoke printed communication/learning assets:
- Handouts
- Z-cards
- Zappar AR for Z-card
- Action learning prompts/exercises
- Bespoke Hub annual subscription fee (per user)
- Hub implementation
- Subscription (open) hub
- Booker portal
- Delivery – Virtual or in-person facilitator; virtual producer
- Faculty management
- Delegate management
- Instructional design
- Specialist instructional design
- Learning journey curation
- Logistics support
- Project management
- Customer success management
- Branding & creative communication
- Graphic design
- Translations services
- Proofing/QA
- Data insights & engagement
- Consultancy
- Supplier management
- Managed Learning Services

Our approach
Successful learning programmes don’t just happen by accident: Our 4E learning journey model ensures maximum transformational power (and it’s informed by decades of adult learning best practices and proven real-life hybrid learning effectiveness).
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