Lean Agile Brighton 2024

Zombie apocalypse! - Overwhelm, conflict, stress (& hope) for teams facing the end of the world

In this practical and gently interactive session, we'll walk through the evolutionary, psychological and neuroscientific factors that have made teamwork during a pandemic so challenging.

Neatly sidestepping pseudoscience and pop psych, we'll explore what actually happens in our brains and bodies (and why) when we experience extremely challenging events – and how this affects our ability to stop, collaborate and listen. And, without a squeezy ball in sight, we'll look at real steps and activities to help your team(s) to pull through and work together more effectively when things get tough.

Participant Takeaways

Participants walk away feeling optimistic and enthused, and with a pocketful of insights including:

Understanding where our reactions come from, and what extreme emotion is good for.
The ability to identify how this impacts teamwork in a face-to-face, online and hybrid setting, and how to support this.
Clarity around the immediate and wider impact of workplace drama in communication, conflict and feedback.
Tools, activities and practices to help teams working through stress, overwhelm and unhealthy conflict (with or without the added influence of a pandemic.)
Explanations that help you understand what happens in your brain (it's got nothing to do with lizards).
The ability to identify who might need extra support before it's critical.