Resilient
Leadership

What it takes to lead through change

Explore how leaders can better adapt under pressure and how organisations can strengthen resilience through change.

Explore how leaders can better adapt under pressure and how organisations can strengthen resilience through change.

Insights Discovery · Change Resilience

How do you lead
under pressure?

Play our quick game to see how you show up when the pressure is on - and the one thing to watch.

Under a minute 3 quick scenarios For leaders & managers

We all have a leading colour energy — a default way we show up. Normally, we can flex our behavioural range to other ways of showing up depending on the needs of the situation. But under pressure, that narrows. We lean harder into one energy and the rest of our range can go quiet.

In each scenario below, pick the response that sounds most like you. There are no right or wrong answers — just what feels most natural.

Pick the response most like you


Resilience is not about toughening up. It is about keeping your full range when pressure tries to narrow it.


What pressure reveals

Under sustained pressure, even a leader's strengths can become limiting.
Two L&D experts explore what happens to leadership behaviour when pressure persists, and strengths become overplayed.

Find out why behavioural range matters when leaders are navigating change. 

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Michelle Spirit
Michelle Spirit
Partner | Unify Partnership
Paul Thompson
Paul Thompson
Managing Director
Westminster Associates

 

 Organisational resilience starts with leaders

 Discover how [Client Name] helped its leadership team build the behavioural range to navigate change  

The report answers
four questions

1

Does anticipating disruption protect you from it?

No. The data shows that many organisations accurately anticipate disruption yet still fail to prepare effectively for its human impact.

2

What do organisations actually prepare for?

Structure, logistics and communication. We asked which preparation activities are most common, and which are most strongly associated with holding performance. They are not the same list.

3

Are leaders behaving well under pressure?

63% were seen to behave more positively than usual. That is where the story starts, not where it ends.

4

What separates the organisations that hold performance from those that lose it?

Five behavioural readiness practices grounded in the data and demonstrated by the organisations reporting the strongest outcomes.


The case for behavioural readiness

We know change puts pressure on leadership behaviour. The question is, what can organisations do about it? This infographic brings together Insights research on the gap, the impact of behavioural development, and what organisations see when leaders have the tools to adapt.  

See the latest data

resilience tablet

 

Ready to build leadership resilience?

You've seen what pressure can do to leadership behaviour. Now it's time to build the behavioural range leaders need to adapt through change.

See what that could look like for your leadership teams

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