LEADING IN A DIGITAL WORLD: MAINTAINING RESILIENCE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
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The pandemic has taken an immense toll on news managers and our wider industry which has been felt emotionally, physically and financially. This is what we know from recent studies:
65% of managers say they’re finding it more difficult than usual to perform their job effectively during the pandemic.
More than one in three leaders admit to struggling with creating a strong and unified team culture as remote work has become more common.
70% of the journalists and media managers rated the psychological and emotional impacts of dealing with the COVID-19 crisis as the most difficult aspect of their work.
The Self-Investigation has created a course specifically designed to empower media managers to navigate these current challenges more skillfully. Learn more about the course:
The disruption, uncertainty and hyperconnectivity in today’s journalism industry have brought new pressures and demanded new skills from newsroom leaders. This course is aimed at media managers who want to sustain and enhance their own well-being and lead healthier and more effective teams.
This online training will offer a supportive space for participants to learn to lead with greater self-awareness. It will also offer you the chance to integrate tools, as part of your daily practice, to manage stress, enhance digital wellness and strengthen your resilience. This will mean that a focus on well-being becomes part of your routine and that of your team, rather than a distant luxury.
This interactive and practical training is designed for media managers who feel increasingly uncertain, demotivated, or even overwhelmed by the demands they face as a result of the way the pandemic has affected their own and their teams’ ways of working.
This course is right for you if you find yourself saying yes to any of the following:
Do you want to boost your resilience and help your remote team overcome exhaustion so you can all thrive and not simply survive?
Are you struggling to navigate the competing demands of being disconnected from your colleagues and being hyper-connected to your work?
Do you want to learn tools to role model effective leadership while looking after yourself?
Do you long for a space where you can reflect on your professional challenges and explore solutions with a like-minded group of colleagues?
This course will offer you concrete tools to experiment with and implement in between sessions. We have designed the course in such a way that it can be integrated into your already busy agendas without it taking a heavy toll on your professional and personal life:
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- The sessions start on May 12 and end on July 7.
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- Participants will meet once a week, at 4pm CET on Wednesdays, over a period of nine weeks.
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- The course covers four topics, which will be covered in 90-minute training sessions, followed by a 60-minute workshop the following week. The final session will give you the opportunity to take stock of what you have learned and carve out your priorities going forward to integrate into the team culture.
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- You also have the option to work with a coach during or after the course at a discounted rate.
We accept a maximum of 20 participants, on a first come, first served basis. The course will proceed with a minimum of 10 participants.
The program will cover the following topics:
1. Sustaining my team’s well-being during uncertain times
2. Managing my stress so I can lead more positively and effectively
3. Negotiating boundaries with yourself and others
4. Generating a healthier relationship with the digital world
The course fee is 550 € per person.
For this fee you receive a total of 12 hours of live training time:
- Five 90-minute training sessions, each covering a specific topic, every other Wednesday from 16:00 to 17:30 CET.
- Four 60-minute workshops in between each training week on Wednesdays from 16:00 to 17:00. The workshops allow participants to learn and consider more deeply the topic of the previous session and to share insights and challenges with the support of trainers and other participants.
You have the option to include one coaching session with Kim Brice during or after the course. The cost of course plus one discounted coaching session is 650 € per person. (Regular coaching session price: 125 €)
If you are a media company and would like to offer this training to several of your employees, please reach out to us to discuss package pricing: contact@theselfinvestigation.com
TOPIC 1: SUSTAINING MY TEAM’S WELL-BEING DURING UNCERTAIN TIMES
Training session: May 12, 16:00 – 17:30 CET
Workshop: May 19, 16:00 – 17:00 CET
Learn how to spot signs of exhaustion and burn out within your team and recognise when a colleague needs extra support and attention. Recognise the skills you already have which you can apply to building the resilience of your team and sustaining their energy so that you all start to thrive.
TOPIC 2: MANAGING MY STRESS SO I CAN LEAD MORE POSITIVELY AND EFFECTIVELY
Training session: May 26, 16:00 – 17:30 CET
Workshop: June 2, 16:00 – 17:00 CET
Learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy stress levels. Understand when you are going over your physical, mental and emotional limits and discover practices that can help you sustain your energy throughout the day. Carve out time to do what you already know helps you be at your best.
TOPIC 3: NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES WITH YOURSELF AND OTHERS
Training session: June 9, 16:00 – 17:30 CET
Workshop: June 16, 16:00 – 17:00 CET
Learn to take the reins within your sphere of influence and control. Discover why setting boundaries is good not only for you but also for those you work with. Practice how to say no and to negotiate urgent demands being made on your team.
TOPIC 4: GENERATING A HEALTHIER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DIGITAL WORLD
Training session: June 23, 16:00 – 17:30 CET
Workshop: June 30, 16:00 – 17:00 CET
Practice how to avoid techno-stress and fatigue. Learn how to establish healthy and effective digital communication norms within your team and how to still feel united and connected as a team in a virtual workplace.
FINAL SESSION: INTEGRATING WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED INTO THE TEAM CULTURE
Training session: July 7, 16:00 – 17:30 CET
Take stock of what you have learned during this course and carve out your priorities going forward.
Kim Brice
Kim Brice founded Grace and Grit which provides personal leadership coaching and mindfulness-based stress reduction and resilience trainer to a broad public, including journalists and change makers from around the world. Prior to working with individuals, she worked as a funder and later an organizational advisor to many media and journalism support programs.
Mar Cabra
Mar Cabra is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist with more than 15 years experience in the profession –most of it working remotely. She led the technology and data work for the Panama Papers investigation and suffered burnout as a result. She’s now an Acumen fellow candidate, raising awareness on how technology is changing how we interact with ourselves, each other, and as a society.
Aldara Martitegui
Aldara Martitegui is a journalist and coach, expert in emotional intelligence and mindfulness. She directs the coaching section in the NIUS digital newspaper. She founded The Coaching Post to raise self-awareness in the field of communication and education. Before that, she worked for 20 years as an editor on Noticias Cuatro and CNN+.
