Crisis Leadership – Winston Churchill

Use Symbolic Modelling to better understand how you can perform at peak and inspire others during a crisis

Created by: Peter Urey
Performance Coach

What Will I Learn?

• Embrace the truism that the people you lead in a crisis are less interested in what you say and more concerned with how you make them feel
• Develop your own metaphor as a shorthand for your personal leadership style
• Recognise your own personal leadership style at the emotional level
• Spot at the gut level where your leadership can improve
• Develop leadership skills by transforming the metaphors you use to describe your leadership
• Transform yourself from the inside to the outside
• Spot repeating patterns and learn where they come from
• Benchmark your performance against Churchill's
• Get an introduction to the transformative power of Symbolic Modelling
• Use symbolic language to communicate and inspire
• Learn about the events amd psychology of the life of Sir Winston Churchill
• Recognise the repeating patterns in your thinking and behaviour
• Appreciate that crisis leadership is about being comfortable with ambiguity

Requirements

• Know how to use the Send a Message feature in Udemy
• Keep a note pad on hand to capture your thoughts
• Sketch out with graphic symbols your own inner psychocative landscape

Target audience

• This course is for people giving serious though to their leadership style and especially their way of operating in a crisis
• It helps to have leadership experience but it's not vital