Managing Pressure for Sustainable Performance  

21st Century leaders face a diverse set of challenges - pressure to achieve more with less resource whilst maintaining responsibility for the emotional wellbeing of their staff. These objectives can often feel mutually exclusive and, without the right skills and knowledge, they can be. Our programmes give leaders the tools and confidence they need to recognise where their teams are on the performance curve and help staff make the best contribution they can without damage to their wellbeing. 

There are many offerings on the market for leadership development programmes, some great and some not so great.  What we have noticed is that the structure of most ‘off the shelf’ programmes makes it difficult for participants to bring the learning back into the workplace in a pragmatic and actionable way, that can offer a ROI to the organisation.  Our pre-workshop evaluations change all that.

We work closely with our clients to establish what the organisation needs from its leaders and our tools make it quick and easy for us to profile participants and identify where the behavioural development areas lie.

With this knowledge we create targeted, innovative and inspiring leadership development content, that is pragmatic whilst catalysing the insights that will give your leaders the knowledge, skill and mindset needed to take your organisation where it wants to go.

We create ‘real-time’ projects for leaders to apply their knowledge and learning, to add value back into the organisation.  We offer clear feedback and direction, challenging current thinking and building greater confidence in ability.  Our programmes have been said to create the perfect blend of personal insight and growth, with pragmatic knowledge and application of learning ‘back at base’. In built evaluation helps us quantify the progress made too.

Stress Management Training for Managers

Inspiring managers to keep their teams running smoothly
Our ½ or full day workshops promote and achieve a shift in leadership mind set - away from fear of involvement with the specifics of the issue towards excitement at the performance opportunities that can flow from more leadership skill and confidence in the area.

We aim to inspire managers to learn more and do more to manage pressure more proactively in their teams.

We do this by helping them understand the dynamic relationship that exists between sources of pressure, team/individual coping strategies and personality differences and the effect these have on performance outcomes.

By the end of the sessions managers can:

• Feel confident to offer ‘emotional first aid’ when required

• Know where and how to refer an employee for further, more specialist help if needed

• Know why they need to take the issue seriously

• Understand the difference between pressure and stress and the corresponding health risks and performance opportunities

• Identify the early signs of stress and burnout

• Adopt Supportive behaviours

• Dealing with anger, tears, withdrawal

• Help others to be solution rather than problem focussed

• Describe the best practice approach for managing pressure in their team.

Our experience is that this material is best covered in a workshop environment where the emphasis is on learning by enjoyment rather than endurance. 

Typically our training workshops contain a mixture of short bursts of instruction on a particular topic before breaking in to groups to carry out an exercise that reinforces the learning point being made and lifts the energy level.

It is envisaged that managers will come to the workshop having completed the one of our diagnostic tools to help anchor the discussion to some group data that they have contributed to. 

As part of this process they will also have received a confidential Personal Profile, which they can bring to the workshop to aid discussion around how their perceptions may vary to those of their direct reports.

Please contact us to discuss your specific training requirements and find out how WorkingWell can help you.