Personal and Organisational Resilience

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

• 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

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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.

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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.  

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This session explores the key drivers of productivity and how leaders can identify practical opportunities to improve performance. You will consider the wider economic policy levers that shape productivity, the factors within an organisation's control, and the trade-offs leaders need to navigate when seeking sustainable improvement.

• Explore the drivers of productivity and how they affect firm-level performance.
• Use a practical framework and checklist to identify opportunities for improvement.

This session helps leaders build confidence in understanding and applying AI responsibly. You will explore the opportunities, risks and governance considerations linked to AI adoption, while experimenting with practical tools that can support leadership tasks and organisational decision-making.

• Understand key AI concepts and how they can support productivity and decision-making.
• Identify responsible approaches to AI adoption within your organisation.

This session explores how organisational design, operating models and processes influence performance. You will consider practical ways to improve effectiveness, manage resources and support continuous improvement in complex and changing environments.

• Explore how structures, systems and processes shape organisational performance.
• Identify practical actions to strengthen effectiveness and adaptability.

This session explores how leaders can support people and organisations through change and transition. You will use practical models and tools to understand why change can be unpredictable, communicate with clarity and build confidence during periods of uncertainty.

• Apply practical tools to communicate clearly and support teams through change.
• Use models such as Bridges’ Transition Model and the 4C framework to strengthen leadership effectiveness.

This session explores strategy as the art of making choices. You will consider how leaders can assess strategic options, make effective trade-offs and allocate resources in a fast-paced world, including the importance of stopping some activities to focus on the priorities most likely to deliver successful outcomes.

• Explore how to judge strategic choices and trade-offs in different situations.
• Apply simple strategic models to support focus, resource allocation and decision-making.

This session introduces risk appetite and enterprise risk management as practical tools for leadership decision-making. You will explore how organisations identify, assess and manage risk, while considering how risk appetite can support responsible business growth.

• Understand how risk appetite supports better leadership decisions.
• Explore practical ways to assess, prioritise and manage organisational risk.

This session explores how leaders can build, protect and manage organisational reputation in complex environments. You will consider the links between governance, strategy, trust and legitimacy, and examine how organisations can respond effectively during reputational challenge or crisis.

• Explore the drivers of reputation, trust and legitimacy.
• Consider practical approaches to managing reputational challenges and values-based relationships.