High-Stakes Communication

Communicating with authority when the stakes and the scrutiny are high.

$4,000 / six sessions

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What This Focus Area Builds

These are the capabilities the Intensive develops. Which of them the work concentrates on is set with your Leadership Faculty member, from where you actually need to grow.

Briefing the board: structure, brevity, holding questions

Communicating in crisis: fast, clear, calm

Holding the message under hostile questioning

Preparing key people before the meeting

Giving people what they need from authority: direction, protection, order, meaning

What It Includes

Six individual sessions with a member of the Leadership Faculty
The Insight Leadership Skill Assessment - a self-assessment of your competence across the skills that decide performance in complex environments
Structured exercises and work between sessions

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The Crisis Leadership Framework

Also in Yourself Under Pressure

Managing Yourself Under Stress

Understanding what pressure does to your judgment, and learning to regulate it.

Executive Presence

How your presence is read by others, and how to develop it deliberately.

Stretching Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Building the capacity to act before you feel ready, as a deliberate practice.

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Start with a conversation

Fifteen minutes with a member of the Leadership Faculty, at no cost. Tell us what you are facing and we will tell you whether this is the right Intensive for it.

Buy this Intensive Book a 15-minute intro call

This price is partially sponsored by KS Insight, to give better access to women leaders, who are less often supported by their organizations in accessing leadership training.