Introduction to Resilience

This course is for people who want to maintain, improve and sustain their potential and performance, and strive for balance in the key areas of cognitive, emotional and physiological functioning. This programme can be provided as a one-day training course, a session at a conference or as part of a coaching programme for individuals.

By the end of the programme, leaders will know:

  • Identified opportunities to build your own emotional resilience and mental toughness

  • Understood the key principles of emotional intelligence and how that impacts the balance of toxic and clean relationships

  • Have a greater understanding of how mindset (yours and others) affects both performance and potential

  • Learnt how to survive and prosper in a challenging business culture or context

  • Understood how performance can be improved within the context of your job

  • An action plan for implementation

Course Outline:

  • What is resilience and how does it affect us?

  • Dealing with stress and pressure

  • Snapshot of current resilience

  • Emotional resilience concepts – choice and accountability

  • Using breathing and lifestyle to ‘fund’ cognition

  • Building mental resilience and choice

  • Personal organisation techniques – control and time planning

  • Change resistance and strategies to deal with change

News, Views and Insights - The Blog

Our full blog archive is also available.


Listen to the Resilience Unravelled Podcast

Russell’s podcast is eye-opening!

Dr Russell Thackeray has been building resilience in organisations for a number of years and knows that so many more people could benefit from what QED do.  That’s why he decided to collect stories from ‘real’ people about their lives, challenges and learning and turn them into podcasts.

With over 250 episodes, Russell shares thoughts and ideas about resilience with different specialists. He provides a bigger picture of how building resilience can make a real difference, to help people who may be facing similar challenges.

You can access the podcasts on iTunes and other platforms, or listen on the website here.

Make sure you subscribe to be alerted of the latest releases and don’t forget to follow Dr Russell Thackeray on LinkedIn too!

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