Personal and Organisational Resilience

Learn to lead with greater resilience and improve the adaptability of your team.

Upcoming Session:

Closed group bookings only (minimum 15 people)

Fees:

£3,990

(15% discount if you apply now)

Duration:

4 days

The only certainty in business is uncertainty, which is why it is crucial that business leaders have high levels of resilience in order to succeed.

On this course, you will dissect the concept of resilience and sharpen your capabilities and confidence needed to overcome adversity. By exploring strategies, processes, and tools, you will expand your self-awareness and build a better understanding of how to boost resilience within your teams. You’ll also learn how to better anticipate challenges that may arise within your organisation and explore recovery trajectories that help you bounce back from adversity.

Key Information

Fees:

£3,990

Duration:

4 days

Upcoming Sessions:

Closed group bookings only (minimum 15 people)

Delivery:

Face-to-face

Location:

Manchester

Diploma:

Contributes to the Manchester Professional Diploma in Leadership

Key Information

Course topics

This course is designed to develop resilience capabilities around four core objectives:

1. Taking stock - Understand your personal resilience:

  • Understand the concept of resilience in leadership
  • Gain self-awareness of your personal resilience and identify your patterns in reacting to change and challenges
  • Analyse your developmental readiness and identify drivers and barriers of professional growth and wellbeing

2. Developing self-resilience – Thrive in the face of continuous demands and challenges:

  • Understand key enablers of resilience building
  • Develop capabilities for better stress management and coping strategies to persevere in the face of high demands
  • Develop confidence for digital leadership challenges such as virtual leadership and remote communication

3. Bouncing back – Responding confidently to adversity and recovering from setbacks:

  • Understand resilience processes and recovery trajectories
  • Anticipate and avoid leader derailments
  • Acquire strategies for building career resilience

4. Developing resilience in others

  • Understand how to build resilience in individuals and teams
  • Develop strategies to guide others through challenges
  • Understand how to create team cultures for resilience

There will be a networking drinks reception on evening one where you will get to know your course colleagues. There will also be a course dinner on evening three, offering the opportunity for your class to come together with a wider cohort of short-course learners to expand your networking opportunities.

How you learn

Built with the aim of connecting theory to practice, this course will help you gain valuable industry insights from world-leading experts through a variety of teaching and learning methods.

Delivered face-to-face at Alliance Manchester Business School’s Executive Education Centre, you will take part in collaborative workshops, group discussions and activities that support you in building your personal and organisational resilience.

During your time on this course, you will gain several stand-out learning experiences, including:

Applied Learning - A learning environment created by the course facilitator that draws on the experience and input of your course peers.

Knowledge Transfer - A steady stream of feedback from participating peers with diverse business backgrounds to help build your leadership skills.

Reflection - A rare time-out to contemplate your own leadership capabilities and challenges while engaging with our world-class experts in the marketing field.

Network Expansion - An expanding professional network drawn from your peers.

Personal Growth - An expanding self-awareness of your own marketing competencies and how they can be honed.

Behavioural Change - An adoption of new rationales and mindsets that improve your managerial skills.

How you and your organisation benefits

  • Gain the leadership capabilities needed to steer through a crisis with confidence
  • Learn the key solutions to avoiding high staff turnover and burnout, both in yourself and your team
  • Draw upon a varied toolkit of resilience diagnostics to increase your self-awareness
  • Identify drivers and barriers to your own professional growth and wellbeing, and how you can utilise and overcome them
  • Gain expert insights through real-world case studies and industry speakers
  • Become a member of the AMBS Executive Education Network and benefit from top-class speaker events, regular updates, and networking opportunities with like-minded professionals

Who should attend

This course is designed for business professionals who regularly face new challenges and demands and are looking to gain the capabilities needed to thrive in this environment, and build resilience both in themselves and their teams.

If you work in the private, public, or not-for-profit sector and want to confidently transition into new responsibilities or expand your existing skill-set when handling adversity, this course will help you understand the powerful role that resilience plays in shaping organisations and individuals.  

Course Lead

Course leads Geoff Thomas, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Sara Willis, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology, bring together a variety of academic and industry experience in the area of leadership development.

As a former consultant at Deloitte, Geoff has over 20 years’ experience delivering executive education programmes for clients across both the public and private sector.

After completing her PHD in Organisation Psychology at Alliance Manchester Business School, Sara now teaches a master’s programme which focuses on connecting theory with practice, demonstrating how key learnings and frameworks can be implemented into a variety of different work environments.

Award

Upon successful completion of this short business course, participants will be awarded the Manchester Professional Certificate in Personal and Organisational Resilience.

You will also receive a digital Manchester Professional Certificate in Personal and Organisational Resilience from Accredible, an online certificate and badge which can be displayed on LinkedIn profiles.

You can choose to curate your own curriculum by attending any four courses from our extensive portfolio. On completion of the four courses of your choice, you will be awarded the Manchester Professional Diploma in Leadership.

As part of the professional diploma, you will receive three executive coaching sessions.

These sessions will help you to apply your continued learning directly into your organisation, identify the specific skills needed to enhance your leadership capabilities, and align your professional development goals with the wider goals of your organisation.

If you are successfully accepted on to the Global MBA within five years of completion of the course, you will receive exemption from one elective. Your attendance on the course must be mentioned at the time of application. For further details, please do contact us.

Guest speakers

Staying in Manchester

If you choose to stay in Manchester during your time on one of our short business courses, you can benefit from preferential rates at the Hyatt Hotel, a modern and elegant hotel located at the heart of our campus and adjoining the Executive Education centre.

Learn more about the Hyatt Hotel >>

This course enables delegates to build their resilience capabilities, anticipate and adapt to challenges at work, and equips them with strategies to create high-performing teams.
Sara Willis
Senior Lecturer of Organisation Psychology, Alliance Manchester Business School.

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