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How to Build Leadership Resilience
803 enrolled on this course
Discover the resilience skills needed to succeed as a leader and help your team navigate difficult times.
Duration
3 weeks
Weekly study
2 hours
100%
online
Define resilience in the context of leadership
Demands on leaders are rising, making resilience critical.
On this three-week course from Nottingham Trent University, you’ll develop strategies to thrive, not just survive, in challenging times.
You’ll examine what resilience means and its impact on effective leadership.
Learn how to maximise opportunity through leadership resilience
Whilst most resilience training focuses on adversity, resilience can also be a reaction or result of positive events.
You’ll learn how protective factors and resilient qualities can enable the pursuit of goals, helping you identify opportunities for personal and organisational development.
Develop coping strategies for managing stress and adversity
Leaders must balance organisational achievement and employee wellbeing and these demands often come at a personal cost.
You’ll identify common stressors in leadership contexts and learn practical strategies and tools including the Perceived Stress Scale to help manage responses to stress.
With this knowledge, you’ll be able to increase your awareness of the neurological and biological impact of stress, and recognise stress indicators in yourself and others.
Model resilient behaviour using practical leadership strategies
Reflecting on your own experiences, you’ll identify resilient behaviours. Collaborating with fellow learners, you’ll explore different perspectives on resilience and develop good practices.
Equipped with a range of practical resources, you’ll end this course having increased your resilience skill set. You’ll have the tools and confidence to address challenging situations as an effective and adaptable leader.
Syllabus
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 1
Getting started
- Welcome – Start here
Welcome to the first activity on the How to Build Leadership Resilience course. The steps within the activity will provide you with essential course information. - Defining resilience
What do we mean when we talk about “resilience”? - What does resilience mean for me?
In this activity, we will explore what resilience means to you. - Resilience in context
In this activity, we will place some context around our understanding of resilience. We end the week with a low-stakes quiz on the key topics covered in Week 1.
Week 2
Stress and adversity
- Maximising opportunity through resilience
In this activity, we will look at two key areas of resilience: stressors and protective factors. - Understanding stress
To understand stress, we must look first look at contributing factors and also the way we respond to stress. We end the week with a low-stakes quiz on the key topics covered in Week 2.
Week 3
Resilience
- Identifying strategies and approaches to developing resilience
In this activity we will identify and reflect on a range of strategies and approaches to developing resilience. - Applying resilience strategies
In this final activity, you will be asked to make and share a promise to your new resilient self. We end the course with a low-stakes quiz on the key topics covered over the past three weeks.
How to Build Leadership Resilience
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
- Reflect on the definition of resilience and what this means for you
- Explore the importance of resilience in leadership
- Identify the stress factors that cause you to need to be resilient as a leader
- Develop strategies to enable you to not just cope but thrive during difficulties.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for leaders or current and aspiring leaders who want to expand their knowledge of resilience in the context of effective leadership and management.
Who will you learn with?
Dr Suzanne Ross
Senior Lecturer in Executive Education at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. Founder of 2thrive Consultancy and a qualified experienced Executive Coach.
Who developed the course?
Nottingham Trent University
With over 40,000 students and staff spanning five university sites, Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is one of the largest and most influential higher education institutions in the country.
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