Leading in Times of Crisis — Crisis Leaders with Charisma
Crises are stress tests for leadership. Those who provide orientation in uncertainty, embody clarity, and engage people, turn crisis into opportunity. Our Crisis Leader Training develops charisma, resilience, and leadership impact — grounded in methods from elite sports, mental coaching, and 25+ years of corporate experience.
Service Overview:
“A good sailor is recognized in a storm.” Strengthen your leadership in dynamic times: Our Crisis Leader Training helps you develop charisma, resilience, mental strength, and leadership impact. Transformation succeeds only with strong leaders.
Suitable for:
This service is aimed at:
- Leaders and decision-makers
- Companies undergoing change processes
- Organizations in growth or upheaval
- Leadership Teams in Acute Crisis Situations
Leadership Development for Crisis Situations
The focus is on the development of transformation leaders who rally people behind future topics and effectively implement changes.
- Building Stress Resilience and Stability in Change Processes
- Activating Swarm Intelligence in the Team
- Leadership through Purpose, Clarity, and Motivation
- Dealing with Resistance and Developing Charisma
- Direct Implementation in Your Own Corporate Context
Crises are decided at the top leadership level. Those who remain composed here win the team — and use the crisis as a springboard for the next level.
Topics and Goals:
Crisis leaders provide orientation, act with clarity, and build trust – especially when uncertainty, change, or pressure increase. Our “Crisis Leader with Charisma” training combines Leadership Coaching, mental strength, and leadership competence.
Gain Overview
Crisis Empower Cycle: 6 steps from crisis to success myth.
Develop Charisma
Learn positive charismatic impact to provide orientation and support to people in emotional uncertainty.
Create Meaning
Decode your employees' motivational drivers using the Energram and effectively adapt meaning-making.
Included in every seminar:
Our Quality Promise: Every Crisis Leader Training follows the same standards — methodologically sound, individually tailored, sustainably effective.
Expectation Survey:
We ensure that we work on the specific needs of the participants. Flexibility in execution is our core philosophy.
Seminar Materials:
Every participant receives our method manuals & work tools in physical and digital form, as well as e-learning videos where applicable.
Method Mix:
We use modern, field-tested, agile, and stable methods that integrate optimally and are compatible with all industries.
Online Seminars:
A meaningful combination of in-person seminars, webinars, and e-learning means optimal resource use with maximum effect. Fast, lean, effective.
Feedback:
Your feedback is our quality assurance. We look forward to reflecting with you for our continuous improvement process.
Free Bonus Material:
Crisis Management & Leadership
Practical handbook with leadership tools for situational leadership—from communication and personality typology to mental training, force-field analysis and transformational leadership.
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Peter Tümmers von Schoenebeck
Crisis IQ and EQ from a single source
In a crisis, not only act with composure, but also use it for a reorientation!
FokusMap
Gain an overview, then define focus and priorities.
Crisis Empower Cycle
in 6 clear steps from crisis to success myth.
EmpowerMap
for solving complex, novel problems in a network.
5 Charisma Principles
making charismatic leadership easy to learn.
Energram
to decode your employees' motivational drivers and hit the mark with meaning-making.
Crises change people — good leadership provides stability
In uncertainty, people seek quick explanations and solid ground. Without clear leadership, factions emerge, slogans gain traction, and collective strength is halved. Those who understand the dynamics assume interpretive authority and provide orientation — composed instead of driven.
The Crisis Empower Cycle
In 6 proven steps from crisis to success — instead of hectic activism, your leadership follows a clear process: gain an overview, focus, involve people, and use the crisis for reorientation.
The Brainstem Takes Over
In crises, the brain cannot long endure the combination of confusion and threat. Catchy decisions and slogans appear attractive under pressure — differentiated thinking recedes.
Factionalism Threatens
In uncertainty, the “emotional need for interpretation” increases. People quickly agree on simple explanations — two irreconcilable factions form. The herd then has at most half its strength.
Populists Fill the Vacuum
If leaders do not assume interpretive authority, they leave it to those with the simplest slogans. Simple solutions for complex situations create subsequent problems — for which “others are to blame.”
The Answer: Charismatic Leadership
This is precisely where charismatic leadership comes in: providing direction, creating meaning, building trust — before others fill the void. → The 5 Charisma Principles in detail: Charisma Leadership
Would you like to strengthen your leaders and effectively implement transformation?
Contact us for a non-binding consultation.
Frequently Asked Questions
A crisis manager administers the crisis — a crisis leader provides direction and stability. Management focuses on numbers, processes, and damage control; leadership creates orientation, trust, and followership, especially when uncertainty and pressure grow. We train both — with a focus on charismatic leadership impact under pressure.
In uncertainty, people seek quick explanations. Whoever provides them credibly shapes the mood. Interpretive authority means actively shaping the meaning as a leader (framing) before populists fill the void with simple slogans. This is precisely what we train with the Charisma Principles — quickly, but wisely.
A proven 6-step model that systematically leads you from crisis to success — instead of activism. From gaining an overview (FokusMap) to solving complex problems in a network (EmpowerMap) to charismatic impact and reorientation.
For executives and decision-makers, companies in change processes, and organizations in growth or upheaval — wherever orientation needs to be provided under pressure.
The tools and principles (FokusMap, Framing, interpretive authority) are immediately applicable — many participants use them in their very next meeting. Sustainable charismatic impact and resilience grow throughout the entire training support.
Charisma Leadership
The 5 Charisma Principles in depth — understand, train, live credibly. The methodological anchor behind the Crisis Leader approach.
Transformation & Empowerment
The overarching change framework — ICO EmpowerSystem® as a methodological framework in which Crisis Leader competence is organizationally anchored.
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