Lessons In Leadership From The War Room

Marjolijn van Oordt

Recording: YesLanguage: English/DutchDuration: 45 min / 15 minSpeaker rating: 4.2 out of 5 from 82 participants across all their sessions
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Lessons In Leadership From The War Room
Marjolijn van Oordt
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Marjolijn van Oordt

Marjolijn van Oordt is an international expert on crisis readiness. Throughout her career she has guided organizations through more than 200 crisis situations by de-escalating, solid decision making and strategic insight. She has the ability to discern patterns where others see clutter. She is a highly skilled negotiator and has the ability to keep seeing the people behind the crisis. As a dedicated ocean sailor and racer she draws and applies her knowledge, expertise and insights not only to her working environment but also to her passion.

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Session Summary

How we take decisions has a huge impact on the outcome of those decisions and the impact we make based on these decisions. The most difficult decision making takes place when the stakes are high and time is limited.

Under these circumstances how do we make sure we do the right thing on a strategic, operational and human level? In this interactive session Marjolijn takes us deep into the War Room, the chamber where decision making takes place during crisis situations.

What can we learn from these high pressure situations for our regular day to day decision making?

Interaction

During the expert session, Marjolijn van Oordt engages participants through a series of interactive activities and Q&A using Mentimeter, an interactive engagement tool.

Key Learnings

Detailed session description

How we make decisions can significantly impact their outcomes and the overall impact of those decisions. This is especially true when the stakes are high and time is limited, making decision-making particularly challenging.

In these critical moments, how can we ensure that our decisions are sound on strategic, operational, and human levels?

In this interactive session, Marjolijn invites you into the War Room—the intense environment where decision-making occurs during crisis situations. By exploring these high-pressure scenarios, Marjolijn reveals valuable lessons that can be applied to everyday decision-making processes.

The session offers insights into the techniques and strategies used in crisis situations to enhance decision-making skills, helping you navigate both urgent and routine decisions more effectively.

According to participants

What people said afterwards.

From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.

I am a fan if sport leaders (a little bit ultra) they. Are practical and organised. Marjolijn had great lesson. Thank you! Radka
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
OODA which is a pragmatic method of defining a problem, reasoning on it unanimously and putting an action plan into place. thanks
In answer to “What have you learned?”
Het was super goed!! Dank dat ik erbij mocht zijn! :)
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
Geweldig was het! Veel inzichten! Een belangrijke; ervaring geeft vertrouwen en vertrouwen maakt dat je in actie durft te komen. Want inzicht zonder handeling brengt geen verandering! ;)
In answer to “What have you learned?”
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Questions about Lessons In Leadership From The War Room

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

How we take decisions has a huge impact on the outcome of those decisions and the impact we make based on these decisions. The most difficult decision making takes place when the stakes are high and time is limited. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.

Is Marjolijn the right expert for this?

Marjolijn van Oordt is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.1 out of 5, across 82 responses, and rate Marjolijn personally 4.2 out of 5.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Marjolijn, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

The session is delivered in English/Dutch. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.

How does this work under GDPR?

We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.

What do we get afterwards?

You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.

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