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Leadership under Pressure

Leadership Under Pressure

Executive education program in English

Leadership Under Pressure (LUP.13)

Duration 3 Days
Location Berlin
Dates 4. - 6. Dec 2023
6,600 €

Leadership Under Pressure (LUP.14)

Duration 3 Days
Location Berlin
Dates 2. - 4. Dec 2024
7,200 €

How to deal with complex leadership situations

Leadership Under Pressure draws on the aviation industry’s experience in disaster management training and analysis to achieve operational excellence and manage life-threatening situations. Crises events show that some fundamental assumptions about systems, operations or tasks can be wrong. Learn ways to proactively manage and overcome critical situations, e.g., from professional pilots.

Your profile

  • Executives preparing for critical leadership scenarios, either due to the daily risks of company operations or a need to change organizational behavior with regard to mistakes.
  • The program is limited to 16 participants.

Benefits

  • Learn strategies for mastering critical incidents
  • Explore methods for dealing with errors in organizations
  • Learn how to establish a system of psychological safety
  • Gain insights into the crisis planning of flight crews
  • Apply your learnings alongside Lufthansa pilots in complex simulators

Topics

  • Creating an organizational learning culture
  • Understanding prerequisites of psychological safety
  • Overcoming potential obstacles
  • Driving decision-making processes in complex situations
  • Maintaining control in dynamic and fluid situations
  • Managing crisis communication

Leadership Under Pressure (LUP.13)

Duration 3 Days
Location Berlin
Dates 4. - 6. Dec 2023
6,600 €

Leadership Under Pressure (LUP.14)

Duration 3 Days
Location Berlin
Dates 2. - 4. Dec 2024
7,200 €
Downloads
Professor Jan Hagen in flight simulator
people standing on a misaligned bridge
Flight Simulator

The program features exercises in a flight simulator under the supervision of Lufthansa pilots.

Error Management at ESMT

The latest ESMT faculty research in error management

Error Management

Error Management: The Missing Factor in Today's Organizations

Meet our teaching staff

The programs have been 
designed – and will be led –
by ESMT faculty members 
and ESMT visiting faculty. 
They will also guide and 
advise you throughout 
your studies.

Testimonials
Testimonial

This was an outstanding program. I have never seen a program with such a diverse and appropriate mix of methods. It provided deep insights into key aspects of leadership in crisis situations.

Stefanie Lawson, Human Resources Global Business Partner, Deutsche Bank

This program can also be taken as part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Management curriculum. Bring your career to the next level and gain the formal recognition of your professional development with this university-level certificate.

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Your program advisor

Your program advisor

​​​​​​​Beatrix Becker
Head of Business Development, ESMT Berlin

Phone: +49 30 21231 6205

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