Leadership Development

Lead with Clarity, Compassion, and Resilience

Bespoke leadership workshops and 1:1 coaching to help leaders and teams turn setbacks into learning, strengthen resilience, and lead with confidence in times of change

Rethinking failure in the workplace

Failure is part of work. People make mistakes, teams miss targets, and organisations encounter setbacks. What matters most is not whether failure happens, but how leaders respond, recover, and learn from it.

At Yugen Connections, we help leaders rethink failure as a catalyst for growth, reflection, and stronger performance. Through bespoke leadership workshops and 1:1 coaching, we support individuals to build self-awareness, strengthen resilience, and develop the mindset needed to lead with clarity, confidence, and compassion

*P.E.R.K. Model

Maintain the following factors when you encounter failure: Impact and importance of

• Purpose – staying connected to meaning and direction
• Engagement – enjoy the work you do
• Resilience – recover with strength and perspective
• Kindness – leading with empathy, civility, and compassion

Explore how positive emotions, gratitude, compassion, and job crafting can help people regain momentum, restore motivation, and find more sustainable ways of working.

Finding meaning at work and how to bounce back

• How to stay mentally engaged?
• Mindfulness, positive emotions, reduce mind-wandering
• What happens to our motivation when we make a mistake?
• Purpose, Status, Sense of Achievement
• Why is it important to cultivate positive emotions?
• Gratitude and (self-) compassion
• Take active steps to revitalise work through Job Crafting
  • Your Task (strengths)
  • Your Relationships (connections)
  • Your Thoughts (cognitive crafting)
• Keys to Resilience at Work – here we explore meanings, models, research and do exercises on
  • Mindfulness, Authenticity, Mental Habits, and the benefits of time off/out.
  • How to release ‘negative scripts’ and question what is true
  • Growth Mindset – Carol Dweck
• K in the P.E.R.K provides the biggest return on investment on happiness in the workplace.
  • Why civility and trust matters in the workplace – lead by example
  • The role of empathy and compassion for others – how to actively demonstrate it
  • How to cultivate gratitude and sense of belonging during times of individual and team failure
  • Self-compassion and kindness to self and others

*UC Berkeley

A New Way© – Resilient Leadership Workshops

A New Way© is our heart-centred resilience programme for leaders and individuals navigating change, pressure, or transition. It is designed to help leaders:

• Recognise the early signs of poor mental and physical health in themselves and their teams.

• Understand what a meaningful wellbeing conversation looks like.

• Lead by example as role models of healthy behaviours.

• Identify team pressure points and build a robust workplace wellbeing culture.

Example Modules

• Understand the Psychology of Resilience
• Leading Resilient Teams
• The Resilient Leader – Mindset and Behaviours
• Compassionate and Collaborative Leadership
• Pressure v Performance; understand emotions, regulation, drivers and negative triggers

If you are ready to build more resilient leaders and teams, get in touch to discuss how we can support your organisation with bespoke workshops and coaching.