Forging Ahead with Perseverance and Resilience
Business today is a complex undertaking. Accomplishing tasks an staying focused on achieving your goals requires grit and persistence. An adaptive mindset helps you focus through the distractions, information overload, demanding pace, and the accompanying stresses that can often pull you off task.
In this course, you’ll learn to develop personal resiliency, adaptability, and perseverance. You’ll explore the resources and people it takes to sustain perseverance, and you’ll discover actions to help you build a work-life balance, sharpen your focus, and foster the resilience perseverance to face and overcome setbacksÂ
50 Minutes
- Recognize what it takes to persevere
- Recognize examples of self-trust that support and sustain perseverance
- Choose the people to include in your circle of trust
- Recognize the characteristics of resiliency
- Use strategies for resilience to improve your perseverance
- Recognize actions that help you build balance and sharpen focus in the workplace
- Identify actions to regain resilience
- Recognize how to persevere in the face of setbacks
Reaching Goals Using Perseverance and Resilience
You will have a hard time persevering without incorporating the benefits of trust and resilience into your efforts. Trusting yourself, trusting others, and having others trust you helps you build confidence, stay open-minded, and remove obstacles.
Being resilient and able to get back up when you are knocked down helps you take the next step, continue on the planned course, and do so without harm to yourself or others.
In this course, you will learn about earning trust and assessing your circle of trusted people, as well as developing resilience, and what to do to regain trust and rebuild resilience.Â
40 Minutes
- Recognize tasks and activities that require perseverance
- Identify the actions that help you factor perseverance into your goals
- Determine whether you should keep persevering at a goal
- Adjust your perseverance efforts when the situation calls for it
- Recognize strategies to help stay the course in the face of common obstacles
- Use strategies to deal with people who obstruct your efforts to persevere
- Use strategies to stay motivated by taking a break from perseverance
- Recognize when to stop persevering toward a goal
The Building Blocks of Building Trust
Who can I trust around here? This is a more common workplace question than most of us might like to admit. Building relationships and trust within professional networks is done like a mason building a wall – one stone at a time.
Trust is a core ingredient in positive relationships. Without it, the mason’s wall takes on a whole new analogy – a barrier, with no gate for entry.
This course explores trust what makes you and others trustworthy, and how to demonstrate trustworthiness through you own professional accountability.Â
50 Minutes
- Recognize trustworthy people based on their behaviors
- Recognize opportunities to demonstrate trustworthiness at work
- Identify readiness factors to build trust with others
- Connect with others in a way that promotes trust building
- Recognize listening skills to seek to understand others
- Demonstrate ways to maintain trust while collaborating
- Recognize the steps for confronting broken trust with communication
- Recognize strategies for rebuilding trust
Taking Stock of Your Work/Life Balance
People with a healthy work-life balance are satisfied with both their work and home lives. They can fulfill their multiple family responsibilities at home, as well as work and community commitments without guilt or regret. They’re healthy physically, emotionally, and socially.
They’re not over-worked. In fact, they have a sense of control over their life, and feel that the decisions they make are informed choices.
In this course, you’ll learn about how to detect imbalance between home and work and how to achieve a healthy compromise between work balance and life balance. And you’ll assess your current work/life balance so you can overcome internal and external obstacles to achieving harmony.
40 Minutes
- Recognize common symptoms of an out-of-balance life
- Recognize the benefits of achieving a healthy work/life balance
- Identify the elements to analyze when assessing your work/life balance
- Identify elements of a technique to effectively balance the demands of work and your private life
- Identify examples of internal and external obstacles
- Identify the actions to take to overcome an external obstacle in a given scenario
Staying Balanced in a Shifting World
Achieving a healthy work/life balance gives you the chance to practice mindfulness and focus on what’s important in all aspects of your life. Maintaining this work/life balance requires constant vigilance.
This course focuses on techniques for managing stress and recognizing the behaviors like passivity, aggressiveness, and assertiveness, and how these affect your ability to find balance in life.
Techniques that can be used to achieve and preserve balance are also discussed. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.Â
20 Minutes
- Identify the benefit of simplifying your life
- Recognize actions you can take to simplify your life
- Differentiate between examples of passive, aggressive, and assertive behaviors
- Sequence examples of the steps to communicate assertively and set your limits
- Recognize how to reframe a situation
Take a Deep Breath and Manage Your Stress
When you’re constantly adding items to your never-ending to-do list, feeling overwhelmed at work and at home, and finding your health and relationships negatively impacted, you are likely experiencing stress.
Stress is produced by your own feelings and reactions to certain external events, rather than by the events themselves. But while you may not always be able to control the external events causing your stress, by applying mindfulness techniques, you can control your reactions to them.
This course explains the physiological, behavioral, and psychological signs and symptoms of stress and where it can come from. It outlines strategies for maintaining work/life balance and managing stress.
It also covers ways to change your responses to stress and make them more positive and how to use relaxation techniques and adopting mindfulness to help you focus.
40 Minutes
- Recognize how stress can negatively impact on your health
- Recognize key concepts about stress
- Identify the main characteristics and symptoms of burnout
- Recognize examples of actions and strategies to cope with stress and prevent full-blown burnout
- Sequence examples of the steps of the ABC model used to control stress
- Use the ABC model to manage your reaction to a stressful situation and challenge irrational thoughts
Organizations Change So Get Ready
Change can be disruptive, but adapting to change can also open new possibilities. A changing work situation can create a period of uncertainty while you adapt. A clear understanding of what organizational change is can help build your resilience and flexibility.
In this course, you’ll find out what can trigger organizational change. You’ll explore common responses to change and the stages of reacting to change that people go through when dealing with organizational change.
You’ll learn why it’s important to be resilient when adapting to change, and how to prepare yourself to get the most out of change. Â
50 Minutes
- Recognize the benefits of accepting organizational change
- Distinguish between examples of internal and external triggers of organizational change
- Match types of organizational change to corresponding examples
- Match common reactions to change with corresponding examples of individuals exhibiting those reactions
- Sequence the stages of reacting to change
- Determine how an organizational change will impact an employee over time, given the person’s initial reaction
- Recognize the importance of learning how to prepare for change
- Use strategies to ready yourself for organizational changes
Redefining Yourself after Organizational Change
Organizational change is inevitable, so you need to be resilient and adapt to the new opportunities it presents. It’s important to not just survive organizational change. With resilience, flexibility, and perseverance, you can thrive in it and propel your career forward.
In this course, you will learn the importance of adapting to organizational change, as well as the essential skills needed to handle it. The course details the best practices of building self-motivation and introduces the idea of re-framing as a coping method.
You’ll learn to turn resistance to change into acceptance. Finally, this course covers the importance of capitalizing on the career opportunities presented by organizational change.Â
50 Minutes
- Recognize how to use key skills to effectively handle change
- Identify strategies for building self-motivation
- Recognize statements that demonstrate a person is moving from resistance to acceptance
- Recognize examples of reframed attitudes toward change
- Identify ways you can reinvent yourself after change
- Recognize the benefits of proactively capitalizing on organizational change
- Recognize the elements of a career plan
