When change arrives, pressure rises and the rules can start falling apart — there are two broad types of reaction.

In resilience engineering, these responses are described as robust and resilient.

Robust — push harder on the existing rules, promoting obedience at the risk of becoming brittle.

Resilient — work with the team to adapt, revise the rules, and have a new structure emerge by promoting a sense of being part of something larger (self-similarity) at the risk of losing focus.

This distinction shows up everywhere and while you may not have owned a company you may have been part of a group that needed to change:

•           A team at work

•           A department under stress

•           A family facing a difficult decision

•           Even a medical emergency where the usual rules no longer applied

Situations where the rules stop working and the “manual” isn’t enough.

In such situations leadership is needed to create a bond which holds the team together — a real challenge when dealing with different Temperaments.

Gary will describe the challenges of such situations using a real-life consulting intervention with a family-owned business at a crossroads, where their decision dramatically reshaped both the organization and the family.

To gain a deeper understanding, you will step into a highly interactive exercise built around a complex scenario where goals are shifting, trust is fragile, and you must guide the team through needed change.

You will imagine leading a team comprising individuals using Keirsey’s Temperament model best described by Linda Berens’ four Essential Motivators:

•           Improvisor (SP)

•           Stabilizer (SJ)

•           Theorist (NT)

•           Catalyst (NF)

In a breakout session you and your team will create an outline of the first 30–60 seconds of two separate change management presentations — one delivered by a boss-in-charge (robust), and the other by a leader-in-charge (resilient), both wanting to keep everyone on board.

The goal is twofold: to feel the difference between robust and resilient leadership styles — and to discover how challenging it is to practice storytelling (resilient) and craft a story that stabilizes identity and promotes self-similarity under pressure when dealing with different Temperaments, rather than impressing one’s attitude (robust) by simply telling war stories.

In other words, when pressure rises and the rules fall apart —

Do you push harder (robust)?

Or do you help the group adapt without losing itself (resilient)?

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