Leading in Uncertainty: Containing Anxiety in Turbulent Times

Aims

• To strengthen leaders’ capacity to think and act clearly in uncertain and turbulent times.
• To deepen understanding of how anxiety shapes organisational behaviour.
• To develop practical containment strategies that support steadier, more confident leadership.

Objectives

By the end of the day, participants will be able to:

• Recognise common systemic and emotional responses to uncertainty.
• Understand the leader’s role in providing containment and clarity.
• Apply simple frameworks to analyse what is happening in their team/system.
• Use practical techniques to steady themselves and others under pressure.
• Identify one or two changes they will take back into their leadership practice.

MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Leadership today takes place in conditions of uncertainty, complexity and emotional pressure. The Tavistock Consulting Leadership and Management Workshops are a series of one day workshops that help leaders, managers and consultants think more deeply about the human side of organisational life.

Facilitated by organisational consultants from Tavistock Consulting, aspecialist organisational development and change consultancy, the workshops blend key concepts from the Tavistock body of research and theory with experiential learning and reflective dialogue.

You will come away with new insights and practical tools to help you notice and respond to unconscious processes, group dynamics and organisational anxieties, and use these to shape how you take up your leadership role. A CPD certificate will be provided to evidence attendance.

ABOUT TAVISTOCK CONSULTING

Tavistock Consulting’s expertise lies in being able to work with the full complexity of organisational life. This means we recognise and engage with both the practical realities and issues our clients face as well as the unacknowledged aspects that lie below the surface; the assumptions, dynamics and emotions that often present an unanswered challenge to creating real and sustainable change. We work to this model, which we call a systems psychodynamic approach.