The challenge

This premier global professional services firm brought 130 of its high potential leaders together from around the world. The purpose was to generate consistent leadership behaviours across the board and to give participants an opportunity to become outstanding leaders who are agile and effective in complex environments. Achieving this depended on giving leaders a space to feel safe in exploring and reflecting on a range of resilience competencies at a personal, interpersonal and organisational level. They required a particular focus on self-awareness, influence, conflict resolution, self-confidence and presence as these elements were crucial to the development of leadership purpose and influence on organisational culture.

 

The engagement

The large ground of leaders engaged in an intensive three-day resilience training workshop which focused on building performance, resilience and leadership. They continued their resilience journey for three month and were support by on-demand coaching and online video modules. Some of the key topics that were covered were:

• Insight: building self-awareness across the range of human experience beginning from the downward spiral which leaders to anxiety, anger and depression to optimal performance where the body is energised, emotions are engaged and a sense of purpose is achieved
• Mastery: constructing a daily discipline (or Integral Daily Practice) to cultivate optimal well-being, emotional intelligence and mental strength to improve leadership
• Participants completed our 60 factor Resilience Diagnostic at the start of their program and again three months later to measure progress and identify opportunities for improvement

The impact

A 22% improvement in overall resilience. The Resilience Ratio improved from 1.4 Assets to each liability to 1.71. Highlights include:

• 39% increase in physical activity
• 9% increase in relaxation
• 14% increase in quality nutrition
• 26% reduction in overactive mind at night
• 22% reduction in distress (stress symptoms)
• 19% reduction in working late