What is Resilience Training?
What is Resilience Training?
When I’m connecting to people on LinkedIn and I tell them what I do, the first question people usually ask me is ‘What is Resilience training?’. I’ve noticed that every time I answer that question, I answer it in a slightly different way. Not because I don’t know what I am talking about(!) but because Resilience training could just as easily be called Life training; it encompasses such a lot.
All is Flux
From the moment a person (or an organisation) is born, the only thing we can count on is change. Greek philosopher Heraclitus got it right when he observed “Everything changes and nothing stands still”.
Learning, growing, navigating choppy waters and dealing with outright catastrophes are just a few of the things we have to look forward to as we make our merry way.
One of the things about change that makes it so delightful is that very often:
It springs forth at the time we least want it
It comes in a form we least expect it
It comes from a direction we least suspected it would come from.
In other words change, aka life, can be a bit of a bugger and our mission is to meet it on its own terms, as equipped as we can be to survive and succeed.
How Long is Resilience Training?
When it comes to the length of your resilience training, what’s important is that it’s tailored to suit your budget, the learning needs we’ve identified together during our initial conversations and of course your preferred delivery method.
Lunch and Learn series can be ideal for teams who can’t be released from front line duties and whole or half day sessions can provide a more immersive experience. Residentials provide the depth and space that take your organisations enquiry into how to build Resilience to the next level.
Executive coaching for Resilience provides a flexible engagement option for those in senior management roles with little time to spare, who’d like to develop resilience in the context of their leadership practice.
Where can Resilience Training be held?
Any training can usually be delivered on or offsite. Trainers are often available to travel, nationwide, if not internationally.
The Resilience training that we deliver is very flexible in terms of location. We have delivered in hotels, conference rooms, office canteens and even woods!
You might want to watch out for hidden costs like the trainer’s travel and accommodation. Some companies like to include that in their pricing, and some do not.
We like to keep things fully transparent and include VAT and any applicable expenses on all our quotes for training.
Why Get Resilience Training Now?
More and more companies are starting to see the value of resilience type training. They are making the connection between the wellbeing of the team member and the wellbeing of the company, be it big or small.
We are excited to see this kind of training become more and more mainstream. We believe it is a key to organisational success.
Resilience and wellbeing are interrelated themes, that applies as much to people as they do to organisations. They both focus on strengthening capacity to thrive despite change and on building knowledge and internal resources to enable this.
In the last 18 months we’ve experienced a steep uptick in demand for Resilience training across a tonne of different sectors; engineering, regulatory bodies, education, housing, and retail companies are all now on our books. The companies vary from pioneering micro-companies to global retail chains such as Specsavers. We love hearing our clients feed back the benefits that Resilience training is bringing to their teams.
What are the Benefits of Resilience Training?
Research undertaken by Shawn Achor with KMPG has shown that by fostering social connections, optimism and an enhanced understanding of stress, every measure of organisational success (productivity, sales, career progression, the list goes on…) is boosted. Put simply, Resilience training translates into competitive advantage.
These impacts are powerful but they are not quick fix silver bullets. At the heart of resilience training is the understanding that culture change and habit formation are needed to embed resilience deep within a company.
Resilience training makes companies grow. We are excited to be part of this movement which is affecting businesses worldwide. It really is a shift in the right direction.
If you want things to be different to being ‘on the go’ every day and then collapsing into the numbness of screen time…The chances are that you are experiencing overwhelm.
When the demands placed on our attention exceed our capacity to mentally process them, the symptoms of overwhelm begin to show up.