Leading in a Crisis Program
Helping Leaders Cope with Crises and Emerge Stronger on the Other Side
Strengthen & support teams
Build resilience & adaptability
Define guiding leadership values
About This Program
The Covid-19 pandemic is first and foremost a human tragedy. It is a silent invisible threat to our lives and our way of life. It is ravaging the global economy and forcing everyone to change how they care for their families, how they socialize, and how they work.
This crisis brings a level of uncertainty about the future that can cause us to feel worried, stressful and isolated. The challenges presented by new ways of working can make us frustrated, unfocused and depleted.
The good news is that leaders and their teams can take very specific steps to cope with the crisis, and even emerge stronger for having gone through it.
- Improve communication skills to build trust, increase transparency and keep relationships on solid ground
- Strengthen their minds, bodies and spirits so that they can weather the storm no matter how long it lasts
- Gain comfort using tools that keep us connected even as social distancing forces us to stay apart
- Make decisions that show care and compassion for coworkers while creating positive outcomes for our companies
This CorpU Sprint brings together experts on stress and resilience, positive psychology, communication, and organization culture to highlight a selection of best practices that help employees cope with crisis.
University of Michigan professors and best-selling authors Dave Ulrich, Kim Cameron and Bob Quinn share researchbacked practices a workforce can adopt to create psychological safety in the face of uncertainty, strengthen their courage, and create empowering, positive cultures.
The sprint also features Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and an expert on stress management, along with organization psychologists from the global consultancy, YSC, who share proven methods for developing resilience.
Author, keynote speaker, and management consultant, Mario Moussa, presents tools and methods to help teams work virtually, and improve how they communicate and collaborate.
Program Features
100% Online Course Platform
8 Unique Courses
Leadership Coaching
World-Class Expert Teaching
Community of Practice
Expert Faculty
Robert E. Quinn
Co-Founder, Center for Positive Organizations, Author, Economics of Higher Purpose
Dave Ulrich
#1 Management Guru by Businessweek Father of Modern HR Author, Reinventing the Organization
Kim Cameron
William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Mario Moussa
Author, President of Moussa Consulting
Shawn Achor
Author, The Happiness Advantage
Organizational Capabilities
Understand how to develop the resilience needed to handle the crisis for its duration
Discover why building courage means doing things while feeling fear
Recognize how to maintain optimism by finding ways to contribute to others
Shape a culture that unites all leaders and teams through cooperation and collaboration
Individual Growth
Define personal leadership values that will ground your actions and decisions throughout the crisis
Share new best practices for motivating and communicating with virtual teams
Strengthen mind, body and spirit to help weather the storm no matter how long it lasts
Gain comfort using tools that keep virtual teams connected
Join World Changing Companies Who Trust CorpU
Program Roadmap
Part One
Leading in a Crisis
This CorpU Sprint brings together experts on stress and resilience, positive psychology, communication, and organization culture to highlight a selection of best practices that help employees cope with crisis.
Part Two
Harnessing Stress for Success
Harnessing Stress for Success focuses on a different way of reacting when faced with stress. During this course, you will have a chance to learn from current scientific research and implement a three-step process to enhance the power of stress.
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Part Three
Becoming a Resilient Leader
Resilience is a dynamic learning process and there are some everyday practices that can help you develop it. You can use these practices to help foster resilience in others, which will improve business results in engagement, retention, and other important metrics. You will learn how to build up your resilience resources, and how to empower those around you to be resilient too.
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Part Four
Practicing Positive Leadership
Any leader, no matter the level or focus, can use the principles of Positive Leadership, rooted in empirical evidence, to produce business results that exceed normal or expected performance. In this course you and your cohort will discuss specific techniques proven to give individual leaders and entire organizations a competitive advantage.
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Part Five
Breakthrough Results Through Committed Teams
Working effectively within a team is a skill that takes practice and dedication. While some individuals may be natural leaders, learning how to give and take within a team structure is more of a learned behavior. Join us to study and discuss a proven framework you will use to help your team overcome challenges so they can operate at maximum capacity and produce outstanding results.
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Part Six
Communicating to Inspire Change
Employees have very natural and rational reasons to resist change, particularly given the rapid pace of change that’s part of today’s business climate. In this course we will address how to be an authentic and successful change agent who gets people excited and committed to tackle the challenges of change.
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Part Seven
Becoming a Purpose-Driven Organization
This one-week sprint is designed to help leaders embark on a journey to embed authentic purpose throughout an organization – including bringing leaders together to collectively discover their organizational purpose and leaders at all levels to discover their professional purpose.
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Part Eight
Helping Your People Find Meaning at Work
Armed with a sense of purpose, employees perform better and demonstrate higher levels of engagement. As leaders we need to uncover the ‘why’ of work that drives people to do their best. This course looks at why ‘making meaning’ makes money – how a commitment to helping your talent find meaning in work can produce measurable, bottom line results.
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