Resilient Leaders Training – Managing Self and Staff

Resilient Leaders is a specialised program for building your personal resilience and empowering others to build theirs.

The program provides workplace leaders with the knowledge, expertise and resources they need to identify and implement a practical resilience framework.

Participants explore the importance of modelling resilient behaviours, and develop strategies to support themselves & their team to sustain high performance and respond more effectively to workplace change.

Background info

Program Objectives

The objectives of this program are to provide participants with:

  • An understanding of resilience and its importance to workplace health, performance and relationships
  • Practical skills and strategies for building resilience to stress, challenge and change, and
  • A range of strategies to encourage the development of resilience capabilities in others.

Key Learning Outcomes

On completion of this program leaders will be able to:

  • Recognise the signs and symptoms of stress and burn out in self and others
  • Understand resilience and its importance to health, performance and relationships
  • Adopt and apply a coherent resilience framework
  • Assess resilience to identify strengths and vulnerabilities
  • Build resilience to prolonged and situational stress 
  • Increase self-awareness and emotional intelligence
  • Model resilient behaviours
  • Optimise thinking for increased clarity, concentration and decision-making ability
  • Support others to build and sustain their resilience
  • Integrate resilience strategies into the team environment.

Training Profile

The Resilient Leaders program is delivered in your workplace to groups of up to 16.

The program provides skills-based, experiential learning supported by evidence-based theory and workplace integration tools. Participants learn through a combination of formal presentation, self-reflection & assessment, workbook exercises, practical skills training and facilitated group discussion.

The Resilient Leaders program is available in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and major centres around Australia.

Content & delivery options

3.5-hour F2F Workshop or Live Webinar

Module 1: Assessing Your Personal Resilience

  • Working Mind Resilience Framework: Foundations, Building Blocks & Pillars
  • Personal Resilience Assessment online tool
  • Self-reflection: identification of resilience strengths, vulnerabilities, patterns and trends.

Module 2: Managing Self

  • Recognising signs and symptoms of stress & burnout in self & others
  • Recharge & Reboot: managing prolonged and situational stress
  • Mindfulness: awareness and regulation of unhelpful thoughts and emotions
  • Stop. Notice. Focus. – reconnecting with your locus of control.

Module 3: Managing Staff

  • Modelling Resilient Behaviours
  • Supporting others – identifying impacts, opportunities, tools and resources
  • Exploring workplace intervention points: Health, Performance & Relationships.

Module 4: Integration

  • Integrating resilience skills and strategies into the workplace and personal life.
  • Personal Resilience Action Planning
  • Leader Resilience Action Planning
  • Working Mind app.

Resources & support

Integration tools

Participants receive comprehensive integration resources including:

  • Background theory and evidence-based research
  • Weekly task lists and goal setting tools
  • Resilience technique practice guidelines
  • Integration tips and strategies
  • Resilience assessment tools
  • Resilience Action Planning worksheets.

Participants also receive twelve resilience techniques in mp3 audio format. These techniques, available through the Working Mind app, allow participants to practice and build their resilience skills anytime, anywhere.

Working Mind App

The Working Mind app, developed exclusively for our clients, provides participants with permanent access to key training resources including the Resilient Leaders workbook in pdf format, resilience technique mp3s, research links and workplace integration tools.

Download the App