Manage Self, Lead Better

  • Duration: 1 Day
  • Location: IMI Campus, Dublin
  • Investment: €1195
  • Open

Course Overview

You cannot lead others effectively if you cannot lead yourself.

Today’s leaders face constant pressure. Competing priorities. Increased complexity. Greater expectations. And little time to recover between them.

The result is often predictable. Reduced energy. Poorer decision-making. Lower resilience. And a leadership style that can unintentionally create stress and uncertainty for others.

This practical programme helps professionals and leaders build the self-awareness, resilience and habits needed to perform sustainably and lead effectively.

Using the evidence-based Jess™ framework, you’ll explore the factors that influence your energy, mindset, relationships and ability to perform under pressure. You’ll develop a practical resilience plan and learn how your own behaviours directly influence the wellbeing, confidence and performance of your team.

You will leave with practical tools to manage yourself more effectively, strengthen your leadership impact and create the conditions for others to thrive.

You will learn how to:

  • Build resilience without sacrificing performance
  • Understand the habits that strengthen or undermine effectiveness
  • Manage pressure, energy and competing demands
  • Improve self-awareness and emotional regulation
  • Lead with greater clarity and confidence
  • Create healthier, higher-performing teams

Programme Highlights

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Improve clarity and decision-making under pressure
Learn practical techniques to stay focused, respond calmly and lead with greater steadiness in demanding situations.
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Strengthen the foundations of effective leadership
Build practical resilience skills that improve clarity, energy, judgement and consistency under pressure.
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Connect self-management to leadership impact
Understand how your behaviour, mindset and emotional regulation influence trust, psychological safety and team performance.
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Leave with a practical Leadership Resilience Plan
Use the Jess™ resilience framework to identify growth areas and create a personalised 30-day action plan for sustainable leadership improvement.

Programme Faculty

Shelley Crawford is a globally recognised Coaching Psychologist, EMCC Master Coach and Supervisor, and an expert in building trust‑centred, resilient leadership. She works with senior leaders and organisations worldwide to strengthen leadership capability, embed coaching cultures and create psychologically safe, high‑performing teams.

Shelley brings a rare blend of academic rigour and deep practical insight, grounded in neuroscience, positive psychology and behavioural science. She has advised and coached leaders across organisations including Google, Salesforce, KPMG, IBM, the European Investment Bank and IMI, and is a trusted accreditation assessor and quality advisor for EMCC Global.

She is the creator of the PACT™ Trust‑Building Model and the Jess© Resilience Model, and is a sought‑after international speaker and lecturer on leadership, coaching and resilience. Shelley holds postgraduate degrees in applied positive psychology, coaching psychology and human factors, along with advanced accreditations in executive coaching and supervision.

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