Steady Under Pressure: How managers stay effective and bring their teams with them
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We'll send you the Zoom link and a reminder a day before the session.
plus a pressure & leadership self-check.
Calm under pressure isn't a personality trait. It's a skill nobody taught you.
When you're under pressure,
your team feels it.
Deadlines, targets, difficult customers and last-minute changes test every manager. How you react in those moments decides whether your team brings you problems early or hides them, and whether mistakes become lessons or blame. This session covers both sides: what pressure does to your own attention and judgement, and how your pressure spreads to the people you lead. It draws on established research on emotion regulation, psychological safety and feedback.
Reserve my free seat →What you'll learn
Welcome and opening poll
When pressure hits, what happens first: you go quiet, you take over, you snap, or you push harder?
Your pressure pattern
How emotion narrows attention and judgement. Map one recent moment: the trigger, the first sign, the thought and the action.
Five points of control
Where you can step in before, during or after a reaction, with a live reframing demo on a real scenario.
Break
Pressure is contagious
How a manager's stress becomes the team's threat, and why people go defensive or silent.
When things go wrong
Why blame stops a team learning from mistakes, and what to say instead.
Self-check, Q&A and next steps
Go through your Pressure and Leadership Self-Check results and bring your questions.
Three tools for the next working day
A three-question reframe
Change how you see a stressful situation in the middle of a conversation, not after it.
Task-and-next-step feedback
Turn person-focused feedback into feedback about the work, so people listen instead of defending.
A blameless response
Four questions to ask the next time something goes wrong in your team.
Tashmeerra S Mehanathan
- HRDF-certified trainer
- Master of Education (Educational Psychology), UTM
- BSocSc (Hons) Psychology, UTAR
A former psychology lecturer who now designs and runs workshops, webinars and learning programmes for organisations, including corporate mental wellness programmes. Tashmeerra turns educational psychology into practical tools that managers can use at work.
Good to know
Is it really free?
Yes. There is no fee and no obligation to buy anything.
How do I join?
After you register, we email you the Zoom link and send a reminder a day before the session.
What is the self-check?
Six short statements you rate from 1 to 5 when you register. It takes about a minute. You see your own scores straight away, and we go through what they mean during the session.
Will there be a recording?
No. This is a live, interactive session with polls, exercises and Q&A, so please join live on the day.
Is this for managers or for HR?
Both. It is built for managers, team leads and supervisors. HR and L&D teams are welcome to join and see whether it fits their managers.
Can I bring my team?
Yes. Each person should register separately so they get their own Zoom link.
Can ClimbX run this for our managers?
Yes. We run HRDC/HRDF claimable in-house training on managing pressure and developing your people. Ask us during the Q&A, or contact us.
Stay steady. Bring your team with you.
Free · 2 hours · Mon, 23 Nov 2026 · 2.00 PM · Live on Zoom
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