This is a 50 minute facilitated session with 10 minutes for self-reflection.

When the level of stress moves beyond an employee’s ability to cope, it impacts negatively on their health, behaviour, performance, and relationships. Resilience refers to one’s ability to cope effectively with adverse situations, and is associated with a capacity to quickly recover or ‘bounce back’ from challenging situations and maintain productivity during difficult times.

This session aim to provide leaders with awareness of their own resilience strengths and gaps, as well as providing practical management tools and strategies to build and maintain resilience in their employees and teams.

Learning Outcomes

• Gain a better understanding of stress and resilience
• Identify resilient characteristics in self and in others
• Recognise the impact of resilience (and lack of) on self, the team and the organisation as a whole
• Learn evidence based strategies to enhance resilience
• Create a plan to enhance resilience in self and in team members
• Know where to seek further information and support

Content

• Defining what stress is and understanding how our minds and bodies react to stress
• Identifying the impact stress can have on employees, teams, organisations and economy
• Realise the positive and negative impacts stress can have on performance
• Defining resilience and understanding its background
• Why resilience is important generally and for each individual participant
• Talking through resilience characteristics often observable at work
• Developing and implementing practical strategies for building resilience through the use of practical individual and group exercises
• Create a plan to implement and enhance resilience practices for leaders and their teams