Building Resilience for Individuals and Leaders Workshop

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Resilience isn’t just about bouncing back—it’s about moving forward with strength.

In this article, I’ll walk you through a workshop designed to help both individual contributors and leaders build resilience in their roles.

You’ll gain practical strategies to manage stress, adapt to challenges, and create a resilient work environment.

Work is demanding. Deadlines pile up, setbacks happen, and pressure is constant.

If you don’t actively build resilience, stress will take over—leading to burnout, disengagement, and declining performance.

But when you strengthen resilience, you don’t just survive challenges—you thrive through them.

Resilience is not just a personality trait you either have or don’t. That’s wrong. Resilience is a skill.

And like any skill, it can be developed with the right strategies.

Most people fail because they rely on willpower instead of practical, repeatable techniques that work.

“Teams Don’t Break From Workload—They Break from a Lack of Resilience.”

A resilient team can handle pressure, setbacks, and uncertainty without falling apart.

Without resilience, even the most talented individuals crack under stress, lose motivation, and disengage.

The best organisations don’t just hire great people—they help them build the mindset and skills to sustain high performance over time.

What Participants Will Gain from This Workshop

By attending this workshop, participants will:

This workshop isn’t just about theory—it’s about equipping you with real-world skills to navigate challenges and thrive in any work environment.

It uses insights contained in the bestselling book "Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy" by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant, which explores how to navigate grief, overcome adversity, and build resilience.

Let’s get into it…

Workshop Title

Building Resilience for Individuals and Leaders

Duration: 2.5 - 3 hours

Objective: Equip individual contributors and leaders with practical, actionable strategies to build resilience, manage stress, and create a resilient work culture.

Workshop Outcomes

✅ Individuals leave with tools to manage stress and maintain focus.
✅ Leaders gain strategies to build resilient teams.
✅ Everyone shifts to seeing resilience as a skill, not just a trait.
✅ Each participant has a clear action plan for immediate implementation.

Workshop Agenda

1. Welcome & Workshop Goals (15 min)

Icebreaker:"What does resilience mean to you?"

Framing the Workshop:

2. Understanding Resilience: The 3P Model (30 min)

💡 Insight from Option B: Overcoming adversity is more straightforward when we challenge unhelpful thought patterns.

Explanation of the 3P Model (from Martin Seligman, highlighted in Option B):

Activity: Reframing Setbacks(10 min individual + 10 min discussion)

Discussion: How can leaders help teams challenge these thought patterns?

3. Practical Strategies for Daily Resilience (40 min)

💡 Insight from Option B: Resilience grows through small, daily actions.

A. Managing Stress with "Small Wins" (15 min)

Concept: Finding small wins helps counter setbacks.

Activity:

B. The Power of "Joy Moments" (10 min)

Concept: Gratitude and positive experiences help counteract stress.

Activity:

C. Self-Compassion: The Friend Test (15 min)

Concept: We are harsher on ourselves than on others.

Activity:

4. Building a Resilient Team Culture (40 min)

💡 Insight from Option B: Leaders play a key role in fostering team resilience.

A. Recognising Signs of Stress (10 min)

Small group discussion: What signs indicate a team member is struggling?

Share insights: Facilitator consolidates key signs.

B. Psychological Safety & Support Strategies (15 min)

Key Concept: Teams thrive when they feel safe to speak up.

Strategies:

C. Activity: Scenario Role-Play (15 min)

5. Personal Resilience Action Plan (30 min)

💡 Insight from Option B: Resilience is built intentionally, not accidentally.

Activity:

6. Closing & Next Steps (15 min)

Conclusion

By using this workshop, you’ll never have to struggle through stress, setbacks, or uncertainty without a clear strategy.

Instead, it becomes a simple process of recognising challenges, reframing them with resilience techniques, and taking practical steps to regain focus, confidence, and momentum.

Well, that’s it for today.

I hope you enjoyed it.

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