Personal Resilience for Professional Competence: Working with Change and Uncertainty

Course Code
50125364

Course has already taken place

Provider
OD&PL

Tutor(s):
Nicola Neath,Marcus Hill

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)
Friday, June 09, 2017, 09:30 to 11:30

Max Places:
30

Description
Pre-requisites: None

Pre-work requirements: None

Overall aim of course
The workshop aims to help participants look at how change and
uncertainty affect us and consider some strategies and tools to manage
this life and work phenomenon.

Intended outcomes and benefits from attending:
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Have learned about how we might experience change and uncertainty
emotionally and psychologically and why.
2. Explore the change as a transitional process of adaption.
3. Have considered some strategies to manage the change process and to
find a way to tolerate uncertainty about helpful behaviours or
routines.
4. Have been offered the opportunity to reflect upon some personal
action ideas.

Indicative content: what the session will cover:
Participants will be given an introduction to how change and uncertainty
affects us in different ways emotionally and psychologically. A chance
to explore and develop self-awareness of how our individual responses
might impact upon our personal and professional lives. It will help you
to recognise signs of the change process and consider ways to maintain
balance in the face of uncertainty. This workshop will build upon your
existing skills and introduce you to tools for developing your
competence in life and work planning and for working with teams who face
change and uncertainty.

Learning and teaching methods: Mixture of presented material and group
interaction.

Tutors:
Nicola Neath; University of Leeds Staff Counsellor – Nicola is also an
MBACP Accredited Psychotherapist.
Marcus Hill; Senior Staff Development Adviser in SDDU

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
• Understanding and managing anxiety and panic
• Knowing your head and heart for effective decision making
• 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.