Agenda
* The agenda is for a guide only and is subject to change
** The delivery of this programme via the virtual classroom may differ to ensure the optimum learning experience within this environment. However, the learning outcomes will remain the same.
The virtual course would be 4 x 90 minute sessions per day, with breakouts and tasks leading to the next session. The course is highly interactive and fully recorded for future reference. Please prepare for your virtual classroom course by reading our virtual classroom information guide.
*** If government restrictions, advice or social distancing prevent us from running any scheduled face to face course dates, In Professional Development may opt to deliver the scheduled course date via our Virtual Classroom platform. Please click here for more details about our virtual classrooms.
- Introductions, and sharing of specific learner outcomes for the programme.
- Consider the relationship between resilience, mindset, and our attitudes to change.
- Describe the impact of stress on our physiology, and how we respond to stress.
- Review a high level summary of the academic research in relation to both the impact of stress on homeostasis, and how this impacts us behaviourally, emotionally, and cognitively.
- Identify the difference between ‘good stress’, and detrimental stress.
- Examine evidence based approaches to managing stress, from an individual and a manager’s perspective.
- Explore classic and current theory on the impact of change, and why change management is difficult.
- Examine how individual personality types, and resilience levels, impact how people respond to change.
- Consider how resilience may be developed through experience.
- Identify strategies to support people when going through the process of change; the literature shows that people respond significantly more favourably to change when there is structure and support available.
- Practice and reflect of on coaching techniques that can be used to structure supportive conversations.
- A highly consultative, strategically focussed day where we will ask participants to evaluate how their organisation’s culture engages with Wellbeing, and the outcomes this achieves.
- We will apply a cultural analysis tool that will help to identify cultural strengths and areas to develop regarding wellbeing.
- Supervision of Wellbeing. A consideration of how coaching and support may be integrated into an organisation at the policy level, and role of Supervision in maintaining an effective support network.
- Strategic Planning. We will ask participants to consolidate the practitioner and policy level perspectives for wellbeing and stress management within the organisation, and collaboratively develop a high-level plan to integrate their learning into the organisation.
Benefits of learning with in>pd
- Develop practitioner skills in coaching to support colleagues during change, or when encountering workplace stress.
- Gain a comprehensive, evidence based understanding of the impact of stress on people at physiological, psychological, and behavioural levels.
- Examine different organisational strategies to better understand the causes of stress at work, and improve wellbeing.
- Apply cultural analysis tools to evaluate one’s own culture in regards to being a supportive and psychologically safe workplace.
- Develop an evidence based strategic plan to enhance wellbeing at the cultural and policy level.
Accreditation
The programme is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute at Level 7; the course represents an Award level qualification (1 X 4,000 word assignment) which can be developed to Diploma level when undertaken in conjunction with other programmes.
