Personal Resilience for Professional Competence: Knowing your head and heart for effective decision making

Course Code
50125223

Course has already taken place

Provider
OD&PL

Tutor(s):
Nicola Neath

Suitability
All staff.

If this date is full, then please register on our waiting list by
emailing your details to peopledev@leeds.ac.uk.

Date(s)
Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 09:30 to 11:30

Max Places:
25

Description
Pre-requisites: None

Pre-work requirements: None

Overall aim of workshop:
The workshop aims to help participants to consider the emotional and
psychological components of decision making.

Intended outcomes and benefits from attending:
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Have been introduced to how emotional and psychological factors
affect decision making and discuss the suppression of intuition or
emotional content.
2. Have been introduced to models for decision making and consider
decision making as a competency.
3. Have considered how rumination and procrastination affect wellbeing
and decision making.
4. Have an opportunity to reflect on any professional or personal
decision to be made.

Indicative content: what the session will cover:
Participants will be invited to consider how emotional information and
intuition might belong in decision making and gain some insight into why
we might have learnt to suppress these resources. A chance to look at
decision making models that allow emotional and psychological content to
be added alongside pragmatic and logical considerations for practical or
strategic decision making. This is an opportunity to learn how to
distinguish between head and heart and have time to reflect upon any
impending decisions to be made.

Learning and teaching methods: An interactive workshop.

Tutor: Nicola Neath; University of Leeds Staff Counsellor – Nicola is
also an MBACP Accredited Psychotherapist.

Related courses:
Resilience is our ability to manage and restore balance and performance.
Resilience skills help us through times of change and uncertainty,
following adversity, set-backs and times when things are, or were, too
much. These workshops support self-development. They are opportunities
to gain ideas and tools that can have a positive effect on you, your
work and your impact with others.

Positive models and individual strategies are covered to resource work,
life and organisational change, maintain creativity and support positive
relationships with others, and prepare for the future. The workshops
dovetail together and can be done in any order. They can also be taken
individually by participants who may have identified specific areas
where they would benefit from some guidance.

• Values and direction – knowing what matters personally and
professionally
• Working with stress and emotion
• Mindfulness and attention skills to steady and focus your mind
• Understanding grief, loss and setbacks in everyday life
• Switching off – relaxation and sleep
• Active approaches to worry, meeting things head on
• Working with change and uncertainty
• Understanding and managing anxiety and panic
• Developing assertiveness and working with confidence
• Working with habitual thinking patterns – thoughts are not facts
• Positive skills for wellbeing at work

Attendance at other workshops in the series may be beneficial