SBS Endorsed – Leading with Agility and Resilience

Program Overview

Volatile markets, rapid technology shifts and frequent reorganisation demand leaders who can adapt quickly while staying steady themselves. This programme combines two capabilities: leadership agility, meaning the ability to sense change, decide with incomplete information and reconfigure teams and plans quickly; and resilience, meaning the capacity of leaders and teams to absorb pressure, recover from setbacks and sustain wellbeing. Participants work with tools such as the OODA loop, agile planning cadences, pre-mortems and evidence-based resilience practices, applying them to scenarios such as budget cuts, project failures and service disruption in Gulf organisations.

Learning Outcomes

• ✓Assess personal and team agility and resilience using a structured self-diagnostic.
• ✓Apply the OODA loop to make and revise a decision in a fast-changing scenario.
• ✓Redesign a team plan using short planning cycles, clear priorities and regular retrospectives.
• ✓Use pre-mortem analysis to anticipate failure points in an initiative and build contingencies.
• ✓Develop a personal resilience routine covering energy, recovery, perspective and support networks.
• ✓Lead a team debrief after a setback that extracts lessons and restores momentum.

Target Audience

• Managers leading teams through restructuring or rapid change
• Project and operations leaders in high-pressure environments
• Emerging leaders in fast-growing organisations
• Human resources partners supporting wellbeing and change

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Training Methodology

Applied Project & Assessment