This highly interactive workshop will provide guidance on building personal, team and organisational resilience. It will also encourage you to think differently, to be curious, overcome challenges and knockbacks and tap into opportunities.

Resilience is not about being strong, or enabling business leaders to pile on the pressure, but about learning from your experiences and using this knowledge to develop and grow as a professional, and as a person. Resilience helps us to be adaptable, curious and empowered - key behaviours for internal communicators.

The workshop will help you to create your own 'resilience toolkit' based around your lived experiences, develop a more reflective mindset and equip you with techniques for overcoming challenges. 

Who is the workshop for?

The workshop is suitable for internal communication professionals at all levels, but in particular those who are managing channels or teams, or who are strategically advising. The workshop is designed to support with delivery, management and influence, as well as personal resilience and development.  

The Agenda 

The half-day workshop is split into three sections (with a break in between!).

Part 1 – inspire

A uniquely inspirational talk from Victoria Humphries who was a member of the first all-female expedition to the North Pole and has gone on to be MD of a successful EdTech business. She tells the story of the record breaking expedition, overcoming adversity, coping with constant change, surviving a life threatening accident and how she has used the experiences from the trip to create her own ‘resilience toolbox.’

Part 2 – debate & discuss

Example questions:

• How do you ensure that you are resilient?
• What are the challenges (related to resilience) in your roles today?
• What are the links between resilience and imposter syndrome?
• How do you support your staff/teams/colleagues to be resilient?
• What is the role of resilience in leadership?
• What does a resilient organisation look like?

Part 3 – reflect & build

As individuals, take time to reflect on our own lived experiences - thinking about situations when a door closing, and perceived failure or disaster, ended up leading to a new opportunity. As a group share these reflections and use these insights to create a ‘resilience toolbox’ based around the four key elements of resilience.

Support - what kept you upright?

Strategies - what kept you moving?

Sagacity - what gave you comfort and hope?

Solutions - what behaviours did you demonstrate?

Delegates will leave the workshop:

• With an increased understanding of resilience and how their lived experiences can be transferred to the working world
• With an increased awareness of the links between imposter syndrome and resilience
• Thinking differently; challenging themselves to be curious, to take opportunities and to break challenges into bite size chunks
• With a practical personal resilience plan to help them overcome a current challenge

Additional benefits:

• Pre and post course access to Canvas, the IoIC's online learning environment, where you will find all course materials and be able to engage with fellow participants 
• A safe space in which to share your challenges
• A network of like-minded professionals to connect with and learn from
• 4 CPD points for IoIC Members
• Places are strictly limited to ensure every participant gains the support and guidance they need, and to facilitate maximum opportunity for interaction, connection and engagement.

Please note that we use Zoom for our online courses. Please ensure that you are able to access this system where you are based before booking your place. All times are UK.

Your Trainer

Victoria Humphries

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