Personal Resilience for Professional Competence: Developing Assertiveness and Working with Confidence

Course Code
50133941

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)
Thursday, December 14, 2017, 10:00 to 12:00

Max Places:
30

Description
Pre-requisites: None

Pre-work: None

Overall aim of course
This workshop aims to help participants to improve their assertiveness
skills and build confidence.

Intended outcomes and benefits from attending:
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Understand what assertive and confidence responses are.
2. Have a variety of alternative approaches responses to challenging
situations.
3. Have an introduction to using body and breath awareness to
support calm, assertive responses.
4. Have an opportunity to decide what they might like to practice
going forward.

Indicative content: what the session will cover:
The session will look at contemporary ideas of what assertiveness and
confidence skills are and how they may help in times of challenge and
change. Developing self-awareness, considering self-presentation,
masking, self-esteem and valuing approaches for all interpersonal
interactions. An introduction to skills for improving skills and
behaviour to challenging situations including practical methods such as
developing sound breathing techniques for calm, assertive and confident
responses. This workshop will help you develop techniques being
purposeful and engaging with others.

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
• Knowing your head and heart for effective decision making
• 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