Course Description

Resilience is a key skill for everyone in both our personal and professional lives. It helps individuals "bounce back" when encountering challenges, setbacks and crisis. This half-day workshop gives attendees the opportunity to explore their own levels of personal resilience, and develop strategies to develop skills they can use in challenging situations. Building personal resilience enables us to deal with adversity and perform at our best, increasing our self-confidence.

Target Student

Any professionals who would like to improve their performance and the results they achieve by becoming more resilient.

Pre-requisites

• None

Core Learning Objectives

• Explore the meaning of resilience
• Identify outcomes and consequences of being resilient in both personal and business situations
• Recognise the situations, emotions and behaviours that impact on our resilience
• Review their personal ability to be resilient
• Develop strategies to help achieve more positive results
• Develop a Personal Action Plan

Course Outline

1. What is Resilience?

• What do we mean by "resilience?"
• What are the benefits of being resilient?
• What are the outcomes when we're not resilient?

2. Personal Resilience

• Self-assessment questionnaire to identify how resilient participants feel they are

3. Exploring Situations Where We Feel Challenged

• When is our resilience challenged?
• Understanding how the brain works
• Our belief system
• How we behave

4. Strategies for Developing Resilience

• Staying calm under pressure
• Managing our reactions
• Understanding the problem
• Building confidence
• Being optimistic
• Empathy
• Putting things in perspective
• Reframing

5. Peer Coaching and Action Planning