COACHING FOR CAPTAINS®
Course Three:
Keep Your Cool
For senior maritime leaders and those preparing for greater responsibility.
Recognise your response to pressure, communicate clearly in difficult moments and help your team stay focused when uncertainty and stakes rise.
COURSE THREE OF FIVE
Part of the Coaching for Captains® Series.
SELF-PACED LEARNING
Work through the course at a pace that allows time for reflection and practical application.
BUILT AROUND REAL SITUATIONS
Apply the learning to real conversations, decisions, relationships and situations on board.
CHAPTER PREVIEW
Explore the opening chapter to get a feel for the thinking, format and practical application before deciding whether this course is right for you.
Preview Chapter One
Chapter Notes Preview
See a sample page of the chapter notes.
Chapter Toolkit Preview
See a sample page of the chapter toolkit.
WHAT YOU’LL EXPLORE
This course explores how pressure affects your thinking, behaviour and communication, and what you can do to respond more deliberately. You’ll examine the human, operational and environmental dimensions of crisis, practise ways to create clarity when information is incomplete, and explore how to help your team recover and learn after demanding situations.
Understand your pressure response.
Lead more deliberately.
Recognise your response to pressure and learn practical techniques to regain composure and lead clearly when it matters most.
Pressure and self-regulation
01
Strengthen your judgement in complex situations with a practical framework for assessing the people, operational demands and conditions shaping the crisis.
Crisis through three lenses
02
Learn practical ways to steady a team under pressure, cut through confusion and give clear direction when people look to you to take the lead.
Leading the room under stress
03
Turn demanding experiences into stronger future performance through structured debriefs that protect trust, reinforce accountability and help you and your team recover.
Recovery and learning
04
Connect the course tools into a practical approach to calm leadership, then reflect on how you’ll apply them when pressure rises.
Keeping calm under pressure
05
WHAT YOU’LL GAIN
The course helps you recognise pressure earlier and become more deliberate in how you think, communicate and lead. You’ll develop practical ways to organise uncertainty, support your team’s contribution and learn from difficult situations without losing sight of standards or accountability.
A steadier response when pressure rises.
Recognise the early changes in your attention, body and behaviour that signal when pressure is beginning to influence your response.
Pressure awareness
01
Explain what is known, what remains uncertain and what happens next, giving your team clear priorities when pressure rises.
Clearer communication
02
Adjust your tone, pace and direction to help people stay focused, communicate and contribute during demanding situations.
Stronger team focus
03
Reset after intense moments and examine what happened fairly, identifying what to repeat and what to change next time.
Stronger recovery
04
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Designed to be worked with,
not simply watched.
The course combines focused learning with structured reflection, detailed notes and practical toolkits to help you connect the learning directly to real situations, conversations and responsibilities on board.
A focused learning experience to build understanding, prompt reflection and support practical application.
Focused learning
01
A detailed written resource to revisit ideas, questions and approaches introduced in the course.
Detailed notes
02
Exercises to help you connect the learning to your own decisions, relationships and responsibilities.
Practical toolkits
03
Return to the course notes and toolkits whenever you need to revisit your thinking or apply it to a new situation.
12 months access
04
PART OF THE COACHING FOR CAPTAINS® SERIES
Choose from single courses available below:
Build self-awareness and clarity to lead confidently and strengthen how others experience your leadership.
Lead with Confidence
01
Step back from the detail, anticipate what’s coming and lead the wider operation with greater perspective.
See the Bigger Picture
02
Keep Your Cool
03
Manage pressure, maintain composure in crisis and keep your team focused and effective.
Spot potential, develop capability and help people stretch, grow and take greater responsibility.
Unveil Team Talent
04
Sustain Peak Performance
05
Protect your capacity and judgement to lead well and sustain high performance.
Or explore the complete series.
KEEP YOUR COOL
Lead with composure when your team needs it most.
Course Three of five in the Coaching for Captains® series.
Develop practical ways to manage your pressure response, give clear direction through uncertainty and help your team recover and learn after difficult situations.
£525
12 months access
Applicable taxes included