A Highly Interactive Training Course On

Leading Under Pressure

Managing Organisational & Personal Crises

Leading Under Pressure
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

06-17 Oct 2025
Barcelona
$11,900
04-15 May 2026
London
$11,900
20-31 Jul 2026
Istanbul
$11,900
05-16 Oct 2026
Barcelona
$11,900
07-18 Dec 2026
London
$11,900
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Training Overview

Training Overview

This Leading Under Pressure training course is tailored to develop leadership skills essential for guiding teams through periods of pressure, stress, and crisis. Participants will gain a profound awareness of their own strengths and limitations in challenging workplace scenarios. The course equips leaders with the latest insights and best practices to effectively manage themselves and their teams during crises, ensuring they can navigate uncertainties with confidence and achieve successful outcomes. By focusing on proven strategies for crisis management, this training empowers leaders to inspire resilience, maintain productivity, and foster a supportive organizational environment even in challenging circumstances.

This training course will feature:

  • Leadership Skills for Handling Pressure & Stress
  • Leading with Confidence During Challenging Times
  • Best practice advise drawing on the expertise of crisis researchers, analysts and practitioners
  • Getting the maximum from emergency responders and crisis management teams
  • How to avoid mis-management and so make a bad situation worse

Modules

This training course is split into two modules:

Module I - Leadership Excellence in Handling Pressure & Stress

Module II - Strategic Crisis Management, Incorporating Security & Major Emergency Response

Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.

What are the goals?

By attending this Coventry Academy training course, you should achieve these goals:

  • Develop leadership skills for handling pressure
  • Explain how  different personality styles respond to stress and pressure
  • Acquire an in-depth knowledge of the key aspects of Strategic Crisis Management
  • Develop strategies so ensuring you and your organisation responds efficiently and effectively
  • Understand the five deadly leadership behaviours and six winning strategies in a crisis

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is suitable to wide range of professionals, but will greatly benefit:

  • Individuals with leadership responsibility
  • Security & Fire Management personnel
  • Health, Safety and Environment personnel
  • Emergency and Crisis Management Responders
  • Professionals who have been allocated crisis management tasks yet have had insufficient time to devote to the subject

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes case studies and several group exercises, participative lectures with handout materials, manual, and slides. Syndicate work-shops and reporting back sessions will encourage a fully participative and an enjoyable event.

The Course Content

Module 1: Leadership Excellence in Handling Pressure & Stress
Day One: Personal Leadership Skills for Handling Pressure & Stress
  • Stress and its effects on the body, mind and spirit
  • Holistic response to stress
  • Relationship between mind and body
  • Personality styles and response to stress
  • Turning stressful challenges into opportunities
  •  Leading a team under tremendous stress
Day Two: Enhancing Communication Skills in Times of Stress
  • Passive & aggressive responses
  • Assertive communication during stressful times
  • Managing conflicts during times of stress
  • Giving and receiving criticisms during stressful moments
  • Managing body & mind healthily
  • Developing a healthy lifestyle
Day Three: Leading with Confidence during Challenging Times
  • Coping with sudden change
  • Leading others during sudden changes
  • Recognizing the symptoms of short term and long term effects of stress
  • Motivating yourself and others under pressure
  • Managing your mind in a positive manner
  • Leading others with confidence
Day Four: Improving Leadership Effectiveness in Managing Crisis
  • Crisis management skills
  • Recognizing opportunities for change in a crisis
  • Helping the team look for creative opportunities
  • Practicing creative leadership in facing a crisis
  • Removing blocks to creative solutions in a crisis
  • Creative leadership effectiveness
Day Five: Developing & Training Your Team to Handle Pressure, Stress & Crisis
  • Training and developing employees to handle stress and pressure
  • Stress handling techniques for you and your employees
  • Helping the team to see the positive side of change in the workplace
  • Implementing creative problem-solving skills for your team when facing crisis
  • Enhancing team effectiveness during stress
  • Developing a personal action plan
Module 2: Strategic Crisis Management, Incorporating Security & Major Emergency Response
Day Six: Evaluate, Mitigate and Responding to Challenges
  • Understanding Strategic Crisis Management
  • Consider the complete range of risks to your organisation
  • CMT and ERT - Roles & Responsibilities
  • Issues management, master this before it becomes a Crisis
  • Who Else Should be Involved (Internal + External)?
  • Nine deadly Leadership behaviours & Six winning strategies
  • Understanding 'denial-curve' and 'group-think' syndromes
Day Seven: Planning & Security – Who and What Else Should be Considered
  • Security Management & Asset Protection
  • Case Studies, why some companies fail, and others survive
  • Based on the previous module, self-evaluation questionnaire
  • Developing, improving & implementing Emergency Response Plans
  • Business Continuity Management (BCM) Strategies
  • Case Study and Workshop
Day Eight: Crisis Communications & Incident On-Scene Management
  • Incident Command Systems (ICS)
  • On Scene Crisis Management, essential elements for success
  • Emergency Communication Centres, avoiding the ten most common mistakes
  • Reputation Management - Managing Social Media.
  • Press Conference & step by step guidance on how to conduct TV interviews
  • Case Study
  • Exercise: Crisis Communications Strategy
Day Nine: The Human Factor – What Can Go Right and What Can Go Wrong?
  • Alerting and Warning
  • Evacuation Strategies
  • Major Incident Simulation - Role Playing Workshop
  • Psychological & Welfare concerns in Crisis Management
  • How to improve staff morale and confidence in the process
  • Questionnaire, are your batteries in good condition
  • Corporate Case Study – when the board get it wrong
Day Ten: Crisis Management Plan Testing, Training and Exercising
  • Case Studies x 2 with the same root cause, are we learning?
  • Exercises: a programme of learning and of validating plans and procedures;
  • How to get advantageous results from an exercise
  • Post Incident evaluations, de-briefing skills, managing hot & cold de- briefs
  • Critique report writing, executive summaries and key recommendations
  • Closing the loop. Implementing recommendations, continuing the process

Providers and Associations

Anderson
Anderson
Aztech Training
Aztech Training
COPEX
COPEX