Building a Resilient Mindset

Learn well-being best practices to stay balanced, focused, and emotionally grounded.

More than ever, resilience is a must-have skill that helps you handle continuous work and life overload, time and resource constraints, financial pressures, personality conflicts, and more. The good news is that this important trait can be learned and improved with practice. Explore how you can become more resilient and effectively handle your daily challenges without burnout and with greater confidence—while staying fully engaged, energized and motivated in your role.

Who Should Attend

All business professionals who want to improve their resilience skills in order to stay centered, positive and productive in the midst of constant change and frequent chaos.

How You Will Benefit

• Apply resilience tools and practical techniques to manage stress and thrive, even during chaos
• Assess your resilience capacity by looking at your values and at situational forces
• Practice mindfulness and other resilience-building techniques to achieve your best self
• Move ahead after setbacks using brain-based structuring and restructuring approaches
• Define a Personal Resilience Development Plan that fits your needs, challenges, and routines

What You Will Cover

• Discovering five aspects of personal resilience
• Identifying internal and external hurdles that keep us stuck
• Navigating volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity
• Exploring ways to improve creativity and productive habits
• Focusing on self-care to lower stress, improve health, and build resilience
• Identifying how you will make resilience a lifelong habit

Outline

Resilience and You

• Examine Why Stress is Top of Mind in the Workplace.
• Explore Resilience, and the Connection with Stress Management.
• Explain Five Aspects of Personal Resilience.
• Reframe Negative Thoughts Using an Optimistic Lens.
• Practice Receiving Feedback With a Growth Mindset.

Identify Your Hurdles

• Identify Internal and External Hurdles That Keep Us Stuck.
• Collaborate With Others on How to Minimize or Overcome Four Common Obstacles.
• Decide on a Habit You Want to Change, and Diagnose What’s Behind It.
• Explore a Technique to Manage Distractions and Get Work Done.
• Practice a Self-Compassion Technique to be Kind to Yourself.

Manage Your Stressors

• Understand Why Building Personal Awareness is Essential to Resilience.
• Develop a Habit of Awareness Through Mindfulness and Journaling.
• Identify Emotions and the Physical Impact.
• Practice Empowering Self-Talk.
• Recognize Igniters and Apply Emotional Regulation Strategies.

Navigate Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity

• Explore the Impact of Today’s VUCA World on Well-Being.
• Define Psychological Safety.
• Explore Ways to Improve Psychological Safety.
• Explain Brain/Body Reaction to Threats—and Perceived Threats.
• Address Trauma, and Organizational Resources that Offer Support.

Find Balance

• Recognize the Price Tag of Unaddressed and Excessive Stress.
• Focus on Self-Care to Lower Stress, Improve Health, and Build Resilience.
• Practice Compassion for Self and Others.
• Listen to Understand.
• Communicate With Candor and Caring to Lower Stress.

Action Plan for Resilience

• Identify How You Will Make Resilience a Lifelong Habit.
• Decide What You Will Focus On.
• Develop Your Plan With Specific Actions You Will Take Over 30 Days.
• Identify Sources of Support as You Work Your Plan and Develop New Habits.