Introduction to Building Personal Resilience

Course Overview

Do you often feel overwhelmed by the pace of change and the demand to deliver results in today's modern world?
If so, this one day course will help you to manage pressure and conflicting priorities at work, adapt to today's constant change, and ultimately strive to achieve a healthier work life balance.

Personal resilience is the ability to maintain wellbeing and work performance under pressure. Our resilience is a combination of personal characteristics and learned skills - this course will help you develop your resilience enabling you to deal with setbacks, change and opportunities in a much more effective way.

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Timetable

09.30 – 10.00 Coffee and introduction
10.00 – 10.20 What is resilience?
10.20 – 10.45 Benefits of building personal resilience: – To employees – To organisations
10.45 – 11.15 What are the biggest drains on personal resilience at work?
11.15 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 12.15 Learning from the past – Self reflection activity and discussion
12.15 – 13.00 Becoming more resilient – What resilient employees do differently
13.00 – 14-00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Your strengths – Self assessment activity and discussion
14.30 – 15.15 Building a personal resilience toolkit Part 1
15.15 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 16.30 Building a personal resilience toolkit Part 2
16.30 – 17.00 Summary, action plan and evaluation.

Benefits

Understanding what resilience is and your natural level of resilience in relation to your working environment
Learning how to learn from past situations to improve your resilience going forward
Understanding the biggest drains on resilience and how overcome them
Analyse your strengths
Learn how to use personal resilience toolkits