Tough Love Leadership

This programme can be provided as a one-day training course, a session at a conference or as part of a coaching programme for individuals.

By the end of the programme, leaders will have:

  • A toolkit to liberate themselves from the ‘drama’ in the team

  • A method to assess accountability, foster potential and maximise learning

  • An appreciation of how to really transform performance

  • An approach to ensure teams are ‘change-ready’ so ‘change resistance’ is eliminated

  • A method to balance potential and performance so that people can do their best work

  • Strategies to build mental toughness and resilience in the team

Course Outline:

  • Moving from a culture of entitlement to that of accountability.

  • Understanding the myths and disempowering ideas of ‘engagement’ and happiness

  • Understanding the need to build systems and strategies around respect and tolerance

  • Understanding your style as a leader and where your style creates excessive drama

  • Understanding team ‘drama’ and how to mitigate it

  • Four skills to help drive accountability and reality focus into yourself and the people around you

  • How to drive ‘drama’ out of the culture


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Listen to the Resilience Unravelled Podcast

Russell’s podcast is eye-opening!

Dr Russell Thackeray has been building resilience in organisations for a number of years and knows that so many more people could benefit from what QED do.  That’s why he decided to collect stories from ‘real’ people about their lives, challenges and learning and turn them into podcasts.

With over 250 episodes, Russell shares thoughts and ideas about resilience with different specialists. He provides a bigger picture of how building resilience can make a real difference, to help people who may be facing similar challenges.

You can access the podcasts on iTunes and other platforms, or listen on the website here.

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