Course description
Churchill Classroom Program
Through a combination of historical case studies and workshop discussions, participants of this course with Battlefield Leadership will use compelling lessons from Winston Churchill’s life to reveal the power of communication, alignment, and committed leadership.
Selected leadership competencies for the Churchill Leadership Program are:
- Forging alignment across organizations
- Influencing without resources
- Managing executive disagreement
- Instilling a winning mindset
Based upon the extraordinary life of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the embodiment of the British war effort in World War II, this course explores Churchill’s unsurpassed ability to convey a vision of victory in the face of overwhelming odds, streamline his cabinet’s wartime organizational structure, select effective subordinates, and maintain strategic partnerships that enabled Great Britain to withstand Germany’s onslaught.
Location: Churchill War Room in London, England and classroom program (at site of client’s choice)
Training content
Leadership Elements Explored
- The impact of thorough preparation and planning on execution under pressure
- Providing clarity of intent, direction and expectations
- The importance of knowing and understanding resource capabilities – human, material, and technological
- Making decisions with incomplete or inadequate information
- Communicating a compelling vision and enrolling peers and subordinates in decisions and initiatives
- Distinguishing critical from important – prioritizing decisions and actions
- Taking initiative in ambiguous or chaotic situations
- Creating team alignment and a sense of team achievement
- The importance of monitoring succession readiness and ensuring succession
Costs
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Certification / Credits
Our programs are designed in a modular fashion so sessions of differing lengths and depth can be developed to meet an organization’s objectives and needs. Working in advance to create a highly customized session, we can highlight selected combinations of case studies and battle events in order to emphasize certain lessons or messages. Or, the programs can be intermittently delivered in an interstitial mode to fit differing agenda needs, or as featured parts of broader agendas for corporate meeting or conference plans.
About Battlefield Leadership
Battlefield Leadership
Battlefield Leadership is a leadership consulting and training company specializing in customized experiential leadership training based in history. Our programs, which are derived from historic events and transformative figures who helped shape the course of history in their own time,...
