Personal resilience is ‘the ability to bounce back or positively adapt to ongoing stress or adversity’. While we might often observe how resilient others are in the face of adversity, the good news is that we can all learn to be more personally resilient. Decades of research evidence tells us that personal and emotional resilience is based on attitudes, behaviours and social support that can be developed by anyone. Many interventions designed to develop personal resilience have shown improvements in developing resilience resources in leaders and employees so that they can better cope with workplace stressors that lead to increases in goal attainment, productivity, and improved performance.

This workshop provided an overview of different approaches to developing personal resilience, and through practical and interactive exercises took participants on a journey to develop a personal plan for building resilience that is sustainable and transferable to their own workplace and situations. The workshop was be led by Dr Máire Kerrin (Director) & Victoria Roe (Senior Consultant) of the Work Psychology Group.

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One of the major areas in leadership that is insufficiently covered in most management education is how to carve out time and space for reflection, and then how to utilise that capacity to generate new ideas and insights.

This high-engagement leadership workshop is geared to get participants started on the day itself, and to leave with an intensive set of activities to be carried out over two weeks. Email support will be provided during this two week period.

Taken together, the workshop and immediate follow up provide a proven approach, sufficient to permit participants then to keep journaling without further support.

The workshop was led by Professor Clive Holtham, Director of the Learning Laboratory at Cass Business School. He initiated the use of intensive reflective leadership practice through the MBA programme in 2005 and it is now applied at undergraduate, masters and executive education levels.

His work has resulted in numerous academic papers and conference presentations globally. He is working particularly on two EU projects involving innovative reflective practices – Beyond Text, and Triangle. He is responsible for the reflective module in the 2017-2019 Arts Council funded project “Boosting Resilience”. He is co-founder of City, University of London’s cross-disciplinary research Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice (C2P2) and its cutting-edge Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership (MICL).

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