resilience training

Overview

Whenever an organizational change occurs, productivity often drops.  It tends to stay at a lower level until the "dust settles" from the change and people become accustomed to the new state.   That drop in productivity has a cost.  Multiply that by the increasing number of changes in today's workplace and you have a significant "hidden" cost inside an enterprise.

Resilience is the ability of an employee to "bounce back" from a change.  Increasing the resilience of your workforce reduces the amount of productivity "down time" in a change.  

This workshop provides your employees with specific skills to increase their resilience.  Participants leave with an understanding of and practice in the five attributes of resilience along with an action plan to build their personal resilience.

Audience

Appropriate for all levels in an organization.  

Format

Classroom-based interactive workshop.  Length: 2 days

Topics

• Introduction to change

  • What is change?

  • Leaders in change theory

  • Models of change

  • Ladder of abstraction

  • What cartoonists, Hollywood, and Madison Ave. know about change that you don't

  • Are human brains designed to resist change?

  • Thinking - the internal dialogue

• How we react when faced with change

  • Lessons learned from:

    • POWs

    • world-class athletes

    • industry leaders

  • Moving from S-R to S-P-R

  • Control issues - victims or architects?

• Resilience attribute #1

  • Description

  • Practice and exercise

• Resilience attribute #2

  • Description

  • Practice and exercise

• Resilience attribute #3

  • Description

  • Practice and exercise

• Resilience attribute #4

  • Description

  • Practice and exercise

• Resilience attribute #5

  • Description

  • Practice and exercise

• Personal action planning