Talking Heads: Leading through Challenging Times - Change and Delivering Difficult Messages

Social enterprises continue to make a measurable contribution to the economy. At SIS, we support these businesses and organisations and help them to continue to deliver their activity and thrive through our business support and investment.

A key priority is to ensure the sustainability of these impactful businesses especially through challenging times like the current cost of living crisis when the services and support they provide become stretched due to demand. The impact of rising costs, the well-being of staff and how this crisis will impact their own organisation will ultimately sit on the shoulders of the leader as they strive to achieve solutions and the best possible outcomes. There will of course be some difficult decisions to be made, dealing with the unknown and situations as they arise on a more regular basis. It can be a lonely and stressful time.

Leading through Challenging Times

This is our penultimate session of six were we we'll be joined by an inspiring leader and social entrepreneur who is leading their business through the cost of living crisis and the impacts this is having to their organisation, their team and the impactful services they provide. They will share their experiences and provide insights into their strategic journey, their operational challenges and in some instances the opportunities this might present.

There will always be the inevitable endless to do list for the day-to-day operations of the business and the team. This sits alongside their strategic role looking forward and planning for the future sustainability of their organisation this role becomes key during a time of crisis.

Change and Delivering Difficult Messages - there will often be times when leaders need to deliver news which is difficult, in a worst-case scenario this may news of redundancies or changes to operations which ultimately have an impact on the business and the team. This session will offer support to leaders who are facing into delivering difficult messages or having challenging conversations. You might doubt yourself and your decisions. What steps can be taken to help build confidence and resilience. Where can you get support? Have you got the support of your board?