Skill Focus | Leadership
Leadership Training Using the Dialectical Behaviour Principles in THRiVE:
So called ‘leadership styles’ are often only a matter of individual personality or culture, and are not based on any substantive psychological methodologies. Worse yet, they are often used as means of justifying dysfunctional leadership methods.
Good fundamentals of leadership should transcend situational factors and be individual agnostic, otherwise it is not a teachable skill, but a passive innate trait.
THRiVE incorporating Dialectic Behaviour Principles (DBP) into leadership education offers a new approach that enhances emotional intelligence, improves interpersonal effectiveness, fosters self-regulation, decreases burnout, and conveys practical people management skills for leaders.
Our THRiVE program skills can be integrated to create a more consistent approaches and expectations of what constitutes high quality leadership.
THRiVE Program Leadership Training Outcomes:
Leader Stability
Leadership often requires managing stress, high-stakes decision-making, and complex interpersonal dynamics. THRiVE provides leaders with tools to manage their emotional responses proactively.
Decision Clarity
Mindfulness teaches leaders to remain present and engaged, fostering a deep awareness of their thoughts, feelings, and the surrounding environment. This heightened awareness can improve time-to-decision and navigation quality.
Team Enhancement
Leadership is fundamentally about relationships. We teach interpersonal effectiveness skills that can significantly enhance how leaders communicate and collaborate with others.
Crisis Management
Distress tolerance skills allow leaders to endure and manage emotional distress. This ensures that leaders can make strategic decisions under pressure, safeguarding the organisation’s interests.
Middle Path Management
We teach 'walking the middle path,' which involves balancing acceptance and change. This approach teaches leaders to validate differing perspectives within their teams while also driving necessary changes and innovations.
Employee Validation
Validation is a technique which involves acknowledging others' feelings, thoughts, and behaviours as understandable. This boosts morale, increases engagement and sustains high performance.
How Does the THRiVE Program Run?
The Two Streams of Delivery for THRiVE:
2 Day Focused
Leadership Training
This delivery method is a single focused course for one aspect of our THRiVE program.
Focus areas include subcategories from the above skills, such as leadership, mindfulness, initiative, communication or conflict resolution.
While we want to emphasise that the THRiVE Program is an interconnected set of skills that are dependent on each other, we also appreciate that it may be hard to find time for training in your workplace.
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Full THRiVE
Program
This is our full 18 Week THRiVE Program, designed to deliver the maximum benefit of professional psychology to your people.
Our full THRiVE Program covers all of the interconnected major skill areas and deep dives into each topic with practical applications, team communication and weekly reflection.
This is the way the training is intended to be delivered in order to impart its true impact and efficacy.
Dialectical Behaviour Principles for Improved Leadership Training
THRiVE, Leadership Training and Long-term Organisational Outcomes:
Integrating Dialectic Behaviour Principles into leadership practices offers numerous benefits that can transform organisational dynamics.
Leadership quality massively impacts the control of outcomes and the ability to attract talent into your organisation. What is often described as ‘good organisational culture’ is often simply a healthy leadership-workforce dynamic.
The principles of emotional regulation, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, balance, and validation contribute to developing resilient, effective, and adaptive leaders.
As organisations continue to navigate the complexities of the modern business environment, leaders equipped with DBP can drive their teams toward success with compassion, clarity, and effectiveness.
This strategic integration of DBP within leadership practices not only enhances individual leader effectiveness but also propels the entire organisation towards excellence.
