Resilience Training for Leaders & All Staff in New Zealand

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Resilience is a valuable quality to possess in any scenario: in leadership, in the workplace, and in life in general. Resilience training with Geneva Wellbeing can help your team to navigate change, pressure, uncertainty, and difficulties effectively and without harm.

Our workshops focus on real-world strategies, where participants learn how to regulate emotions, respond effectively under pressure, and recover from setbacks in ways that support both individual wellbeing and team performance.

Geneva Wellbeing is a trusted provider of resilience training in the workplace. Our workshops are grounded in research and delivered by experienced psychologists, a truly evidence-based experience with real impact. Get in touch today to book yours!

Why resilience matters for leaders in the Workplace

Workplaces are constantly changing. People are often required to manage competing demands, uncertainty, and high workloads. Resilience training helps individuals and teams to:

·         Respond more effectively to pressure

·         Maintain psychological wellbeing

·         Stay engaged and productive during change

·         Support each other through challenges

For leaders, resilience training improves leaders to make considered decisions under pressure, support their team through uncertainty, manage their own wellbeing and energy and create a stable and psychologically safe environment for their people.

Support your leaders and team to manage pressure and change. Book resilience training today.

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Benefits of resilience training

There are many ways in which workplace resilience training offers real benefits to your leaders and teams. Science-based and practical, our workshops contribute positively to performance and sustainability in any organisation.

Resilience training can improve emotional regulation for leaders and team members, which contributes to better wellbeing and culture in the workplace. It can also boost working relationships, fostering better collaboration and communication. Trainers offer teams and individuals strategies for effective stress management and provide leaders with the ability to navigate uncertainty. That’s a very valuable tool in a fast-changing world.

Geneva Wellbeing’s resilience training workshops are more than basic stress management; they are a building block for an organisation that can not only perform well on a day-to-day basis but also weather storms and come out the other side.

To build real resilience, our experienced psychologist trainers help attendees to recognise and address underlying thinking patterns and the behaviours that these patterns influence. Training is targeted to groups and individuals for very practical and applicable upskilling that creates notable improvements in performance and therefore outcomes. It can boost confidence, enhance adaptability, and create solid foundations for success.

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What participants will learn

Across our resilience workshops, participants learn practical, evidence-based skills including:

●     Emotional regulation techniques

●     Strategies for managing uncertainty and change

●     Tools to build strong relationships within the workplace

●     Identification of unhelpful thinking patterns and how to shift them in a more helpful direction

●     Approaches to support wellbeing under pressure

These are broad categories of specific learnings included as part of resilience training in the workplace. Courses include real-life examples and applications that equip individuals to use and benefit from them in real life and their real roles and industries.

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Resilience training course options

Choose from a range of resilience training options, tailored for all staff or leaders. Each workshop is grounded in evidence and delivered by experienced psychologists. 

Thrive

Designed for: All staff

A resilience training course designed for all staff, Thrive instills attendees with the ability to manage pressure, adapt to change, and stay well at work. This practical session uses psychological science to strengthen resilience and introduce strategies participants can apply straight away.

Bounce back – Resist pressure – Adapt to change – Thrive. Together, these four descriptors form a resilience continuum, highlighting that our resilience is fluid. Everyday actions can help us to navigate daily challenges and live well. Most of us know which strategies are helpful for boosting our resilience. However, when we are juggling many different priorities or managing changing circumstances, putting these into practice can be challenging.

Our shorter introductory training (60-90 minutes) is intended to get people thinking about their wellbeing and to jump start action with a few concrete ideas, while our longer workshops (half or full-day) offer more tools and create lots of opportunity for discussion, question asking, and learning from one another.

  • Introductory training | In-person or online (60-90 minutes)
  • Half-day | In-person or online (4 hours)
  • One day | In-person only (8 hours)
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Boosting wellbeing in remote and dispersed teams

Designed for: Leaders or all staff

  • Online or in-person
  • Format: Introductory training (60-90 minutes)

Working remotely, at least part of the time, has become more and more common. There are advantages to these flexible working arrangements but also challenges. The ways we build wellbeing in the office will often need some adjusting to meet the challenges of working remotely, typically requiring us to be more intentional and deliberate with our approach.

This resilience training can be tailored either to leaders or all staff, and is targeted for those working remotely. Support wellbeing and effectiveness in remote or flexible working environments. This practical session helps participants build more intentional ways of working and provides tools to maintain connection, manage challenges, and support wellbeing from a distance.

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Resilience during uncertain times

Designed for: Leaders or all staff

  • Online or in-person
  • Format: Introductory training (60-90 minutes)

This resilience training can be delivered to all staff or tailored to a leadership team. Based on four descriptors—overwhelmed, surviving, adapting, and thriving—it equips attendees to manage the natural fluctuations of life and work. Times of uncertainty and challenge are more or less inevitable, and in this workshop our psychologists cover strategies to deal with them, including diaphragmatic breathing, stopping to regain control, acknowledging reactions, and boosting positive emotions.

We provide a New Zealand model of wellbeing on which to centre our conversations. We cover these practical wellbeing strategies:

  • Diaphragmatic breathing
  • Stop and pause
  • Take control
  • Acknowledge your reactions right now
  • Boost positive emotions

This session can be run for all team members, or tailored specifically for those leading teams.

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Flourishing: The power of positive psychology

Designed for: All staff

  • Online or in-person
  • Format: Introductory training (60-90 minutes)

Positive psychology is the scientific study of what helps individuals and groups to thrive and flourish. Not only does flourishing help improve people’s life satisfaction, but it also helps them to be at their best at work, with higher engagement, collaboration and productivity. Research from positive psychology has found that there are particular interventions that work to increase flourishing, and most likely act as foundations for new habits, actions or relationships.

This resilience training focuses on positive psychology: proactively thriving rather than just weathering storms. It is designed for all staff, supporting everyone in your organisation to be the best they can be and attain the best results possible. Participants learn simple ways to strengthen positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment in their day-to-day work.

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Shifting the frantic

Designed for: All staff

  • Online or in-person
  • Format: Introductory training (60-90 minutes)

In our modern, hyper-connected, “always on” world, many people describe feeling constantly frantic, overwhelmed and as if they are constantly playing catch-up. At Geneva Wellbeing, we hear comments like: “I’m always in meetings … The pace here is full on … It’s hard to slow it down … If we can just get through this next busy patch …” This mental overdrive often means it can be hard to use well-known time-management strategies, manage stress or work productively, and it can feel impossible to ever fully wind down.

Another all-staff workshop designed to equip your people for success. This is targeted training for busy people who are “always on”, offering strategies to stay afloat and get ahead in a world that can feel fast-paced and overwhelming. When typical time management strategies are not enough, the tools provided in this training session can create a strong foundation for calm and control.

Interested in one or more of the resilience workshops above? Get in touch! We can adjust and tailor content to suit your context.

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How our resilience training is delivered

Our resilience training for the workplace can come to your team in-person or online. Either way, it’s delivered by experienced and qualified psychologists with a strong grounding in the theories and practices that they teach. All content is based on best-practice and the latest research, with theories and science translated into simple, actionable strategies. Facilitators can tailor content to be relevant to specific roles and teams.

Workshops include interactive learning methods and discussion opportunities. There are also practical exercises to consolidate the lessons learnt, making the experience effective and truly helpful for all in attendance. They are not passive lectures to be listened to. All of the theoretical knowledge in the world is not useful without the ability to put it into action!

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