Personal Resilience and Stress Management
Being under pressure or feeling stressed is an inevitable and arguably healthy reality of life. Stress can bring out our best and push us to achieve things we never dreamed possible.
But sometimes it seems our self-worth is measured by how much we can put up with, a rite of passage to see how long we can grin can bear it… surviving rather than thriving.
In a desperate attempt to show how strong we are, we often break ourselves, coming back day after day for more of the same expecting a different outcome. That’s not resilience. I think Einstein called it insanity.
It turns out we are hardwired to be resilient, and it’s in the recovery that we get stronger. In this short programme, you’ll learn that far from being a fixed character trait, resilience can be built.
Personal Resilience and Stress Management (15mins)
Outcomes
Understand why personal resilience is so important
Learn how to build your own personal resilience and manage stress
Practice some evidence-based techniques for proactively building your own resilience
Course unit breakdown
In this opening chapter, we tackle one or two misconceptions about resilience.
An interactive session exploring key attributes of resilience.
A deeper dive into the relationship between resilience and stress management
In this chapter we dig in to the key components of resilience and the simple steps we can take to build our own resilience.
Bringing things to a close, we check to see how much went in, as well as highlighting some of the less helpful stress management strategies!
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Hear from our clients
We were looking for a partner, who had a positive approach to Mental Health & Wellbeing. Someone who could convey the message in an engaging way while still being laser sharp about the seriousness of taking care of your own wellbeing. It was important to select a program, which could embrace our Colgate Culture and at the same time tap straight into various local cultures and allow each individual to feel invited and listen to.
The program has been a great success with incredible high participation on both the virtual instructor-led sessions and the eLearning modules. What we particularly love is the bite-sized, fun and interactive way the eLearning is constructed with a great variety to keep the learner hooked.
The equal and unpretentious dialogue Oakwood masters creates psychological safety and opens up for dialogue, vulnerability - and the opportunity to proactively take responsibility
Susanne Vang
Talent Acquisition & Learning Manager - Northern Europe, Colgate-Palmolive Company
We worked with Oakwood to implement mental health and wellbeing training across our workforce- this consisted of classroom based training for managers and a shorter online course. The online course was specifically designed to be lighter touch than the management course and focused on individual wellbeing. The online platform worked well in terms of delivering this as it allowed staff to undertake the training at their own pace at a time that suited them. The ability to start the course and then return to it later was also beneficial to staff in support roles as it allowed them to manage their time effectively and still carry out the day job. Feedback from staff has been very positive and they have commented that they were surprised how much they learned and took away from the online course
Lucy Finn
Assistant Director People – Scotland and North of England, Barnardo’s
Interactive and to the point. It was very compassionate and gave hope. Very insightful and educational and has helped me to have more empathy
Orlaith Downey
Business Analyst - Colgate-Palmolive Company
The key to any content is in its delivery. Nothing short of world class Terry at our Operations Leadership training. Many, many of our colleagues have been discussing this today. That’s testament to your articulation of such a difficult topic. The content is so thought provoking and I’m already trying to embrace some new approaches for my personal ‘wellbeing’ but importantly my team members.
Lee Chambers
Distribution Director, Unipart Group
Very well, mixture of formats kept it fresh. The mix of interactive, video and stories made it easy to stay engaged.
Ciaran Butler
Business Analyst - Colgate-Palmolive Company
Very good, concise, informative, understandable and meaningful All of it, good mixture of learning styles. Related to theory and easy models to follow. Highly recommended.
Lynda Atter
Cancer Awareness Nurse – Cancer Research UK
Very engaging. Learning some tips & tools to support others. Do it!
