Resilience and Wellbeing
Are you struggling to balance your professional goals with your personal wellbeing? Too many engineering professionals feel stressed, burned out, and overwhelmed. Discover how to work in a flow state and create resilience to cope with and adapt to new situations.
Description
Accomplish your professional goals while reclaiming your time and energy for personal wellbeing.
In this course, engineering professionals will explore how to overcome struggles with distractions and uncertainty, and face adversity with grit and resilience.
Through discussion and case scenarios, course participants will identify and reduce personal stressors for improved wellbeing.
Participants will discover how to adapt to new situations with confidence and thrive under pressure with grit and resilience. Examine techniques to trigger flow states for productivity, so you have more time for your personal life.
Learning outcomes
This course is designed to help you:
- Explore the science of happiness known as positive psychology
- List five ways you can create wellbeing in your life
- Explore self-management wellbeing techniques including science-backed action steps to sleep well
- Practise gratitude and writing in a journal to improve happiness and wellbeing
- Identify key stress triggers and how to manage stressors at work
- Explore how active recovery can help you reduce stress and avoid burnout
- Identify 9 characteristics of flow state, so you can work at your optimal state of consciousness
- Explore ways to eliminate distractions that can stop you from achieving goals
- Recognise how resilience can help you face adversity with confidence
- Examine techniques so you can bounce back and thrive under pressure
Intended audience
This course is designed for engineering professionals, managers and any professionals who wish to improve resilience and wellbeing in the workplace. This course focuses on how to overcome distraction, uncertainty and stress triggers for peak performance and improved wellbeing.
Format
Resilience and Wellbeing is a 5.5 hour course, facilitated online. Concepts and case law will be introduced and explained, then applied through scenarios and discussions. Real-time interactions including group activities, polls and Q&As will allow you to connect and ask questions throughout the course.
Presenter information
Kathryn Finn is an experienced facilitator with a degree in Psychology and Sociology, a Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management and is currently studying for a Masters in Psychology. She has experience working for structural and mechanical engineering companies and is passionate about workplace wellbeing and creating working environments that are positive, productive and engaging.
As director of KiwiBoss, employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass develops professionals’ skills in improving workplace resilience and wellbeing for greater productivity. Julia is an engaging presenter with expertise in training engineering professionals to create high-performing workplaces through the online course, Leader’s Guide to Performance Management. Julia is an employment columnist for the NZ Herald.