Leadership in a crisis - how to fill your political leadership
space when faced with a crisis
Introduction
‘It was an extraordinarily useful exercise. I learned an
enormous amount about how, in a crisis, your expectations are
overturned - and that disaster often follows from sticking to the
script of what was normal before”. Roger Gough, Member KCC
This is a unique first for senior political leaders who will be
charged with strategic decision making or advising the leader
engaged in a crisis. Local government will depend on confident,
decisive and emotionally resilient political leaders to lead others
through ambiguity and chaos.
Objectives
To enable you to personify, demonstrate and
communicate:
- The empowerment and enterprise to be better prepared and ready
to deal with the eventuality of crisis leadership and
management
- To have the radicalism and urgency in implementing strategic
leadership aims and objectives when engaged as a member of a crisis
management team
- The tools and professionalism to evaluate if their
organisation has the business continuity systems and support
mechanisms in place to ensure that the initial leadership response
to a crisis is effective and resilient to strategic shock.
Course content
This course uses immersive learning technologies that deliver a
unique real time leadership decision making experience. You will on
conclusion understand fully the following crisis leadership
principles:
- Not all problems are the same, and will fall into a spectrum of
'Tame Problems' to the complete chaotic, ‘Wicked Problems’
- Imagine the perfect information that you would like to have
that allows you to address the issue with high confidence and then
compare that to the information you either have or are likely
to get
- Think about the consumer that you are actually engaging—what is
the risk tolerance of that person? What are your decision
metrics? What kind of decision are they trying to
support?
- The tyranny of time, you can think about these things a
lot but if you have to answer the question in the hour you
fight with who or what you have got
Duration: 1 day Seminar
Cost: £800 per delegate
For further information or booking details please contact
hannah.sharp@kent.gov.uk
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