Brief Summary
This course dives into crisis leadership using Symbolic Modelling inspired by Winston Churchill. You’ll reflect on emotions, think deeply about your leadership approach, and create your own leadership metaphor. It's all about understanding yourself and inspiring others during tough times.
Key Points
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Learn about crisis leadership through the lens of symbolic modelling.
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Explore Winston Churchill's leadership style using real footage and quotes.
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Reflect on your emotional reactions and their symbolic meanings.
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Identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
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Develop a personal metaphor that represents your leadership style.
Learning Outcomes
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Enhanced understanding of your emotional reactions in leadership.
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Ability to identify personal leadership patterns.
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Creation of a metaphor that captures your leadership essence.
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Skills to inspire others in crisis situations.
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Greater self-awareness and ability to implement change.
About This Course
Use Symbolic Modelling to better understand how you can perform at peak and inspire others during a crisis
This course is for people giving serious thought to improving their leadership style and especially their crisis leadership. Only you will know how crisis affects you and where change is required. We use a new technique called Symbolic Modelling, devised by James Lawley and Penny Tompkins, to help you model the mind of the greatest exemplar of crisis leadership - Sir Winston Churchill.
Specific scenarios from Churchill's life are illustrated with public domain footage from the period, his speeches and quotes from his books. You are asked to consider your emotional reactions to the events and to reflect upon them at the symbolic or metaphorical level. A key question in this exercise is "And all that's like what?"
A fundamental principle of Symbolic Modelling is that you already possess all the inner resources you need to self correct your thinking and behaviour. All you need is to have your attention drawn to aspects of your thought landscape and to muse relectively on the dynamics of your mind.
Once you are comfortable with your symbolic relationship with crisis leadership, we help you to spot repeating patterns and think about improved outcomes by asking "What would you like to have happen?"The course demands a lot of deep contemplation. Once the process starts change will take place at a subtle level and in unpredictable ways. Be ready to capture any of the effects of change. We are always on hand to provide support. The course content lasts over an hour but the impact and our interest supporting you does not end with the course but lasts for the duration until you can sense recognisable improvement to the point of transformation.
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
Elisabetta B.
Interesting course, introducing to symbolic modelling through Churchill's life seen from various perspectives. Broadens the view.