Resilience & Managing Change

Build personal resilience, manage pressure and adapt positively to change while protecting wellbeing and maintaining focus at work.

Development is not only about doing more for the business. It is about feeling more capable in your role, understanding yourself and making room for the career you want. When demands keep growing, we understand why focus, confidence and resilience can need attention too.

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Duration

Half day · 3.5 hours per half day

Group size

6–8 delegates

Format

Online or face to face

Price — Face to face

From £1,100

+ VAT

Price — Online

From £899

+ VAT

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Why this course matters

Adapting well means recognising the pressure and choosing a useful next step, not pretending everything is easy.

What you’ll explore in the Lab

When change is constant and pressure sustained, staying adaptable and effective requires more than a positive outlook. This half-day course helps delegates understand their responses to change, explore the building blocks of resilience and develop practical techniques for managing stress and supporting wellbeing.

Designed for teams navigating change, people under sustained pressure and managers supporting others, it explores how to reframe setbacks and focus effort on what can be controlled. Delegates leave with a personal resilience plan to help them respond more constructively to challenges, adapt positively and sustain their effectiveness as circumstances continue to shift.

a real challenge. a purposeful response.

The challenges this addresses

Change leaving people uncertain about how best to respond
Sustained pressure reducing everyday focus and personal wellbeing
Personal pressure signals overlooked during prolonged periods of change
Adaptation plans missing practical steps suited to individual circumstances

What this can change at work

Change is easier to navigate when people have space to understand their response and choose a useful next step. Practical pressure-management techniques and a personal resilience plan help individuals identify what supports them through uncertainty. Teams can discuss changing demands with greater awareness, helping the business approach transitions with more considered conversations about focus, adaptation and the realities of sustained pressure.

Responses to change explored

Colleagues identify what feels uncertain about a change and discuss the practical adjustments they can make in their own work.

Pressure techniques used deliberately

People draw on a chosen pressure-management technique when demands rise, rather than relying only on pushing through the working day.

Personal plans revisited

Individuals review their resilience plan as circumstances change and bring relevant needs or adjustments into conversations with their manager.

Inside the workshop

Working in a small group of 6–8, delegates move from exploring their responses to change to practising ways to manage pressure and reframe setbacks. Interactive breakouts, peer-to-peer learning and live practice provide opportunities to apply techniques to workplace challenges and identify what is within their control. Each delegate leaves with a personal resilience plan, setting out practical actions to support wellbeing, adaptability and focus.

Make Resilience & Managing Change relevant to your business

Tell us where you want to make progress with how people respond to change. We can discuss suitable workplace examples, priorities and access needs before agreeing the scope. Choose live online or face-to-face training for your UK or European team, with delivery arrangements agreed before booking.

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What the training covers

The scope below sets out the subjects covered. Workplace examples and practice are shaped around your team within the booked format.

How people respond to change
The building blocks of resilience
Managing stress and wellbeing
Reframing setbacks
Staying focused on what you can control
Personal resilience plan

What’s included in your booking

Your booked time and format: Half day · Live online or face to face, agreed before booking · 6–8 delegates.
Included in every course: Interactive, facilitator-led learningLive, hands-on sessions built around practice and participation.
Group discussionsShared conversations about real situations, so people learn from each other as well as the facilitator.
Breakout exercisesSmall-group practice, role-play and problem-solving, online or in the room.
Take-away materialsCourse materials, tools and templates to use back at work.
Facilitated learning and practical application: The subject coverage, exercises and facilitator feedback described above, with space to connect the learning to relevant workplace situations. The workshop description sets out the specific plans, prompts or tools developed in this course.

Follow-up coaching, refresher sessions and additional delivery days are not automatic inclusions; any additions are agreed in your proposal. Travel, venue arrangements and any software licences are confirmed separately where relevant. Prices exclude VAT.

Outcomes

The capabilities delegates work towards through the training and practice:

Understand your response to change
Use practical techniques to manage pressure
Adapt positively to change
Leave with a personal resilience plan

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Take it back to work.

Choose a real situation where you want to apply the learning. Use it to turn an outcome into a manageable first step, then reflect on what changes.

Choose

Start with one priority: Understand your response to change.

Apply

Try the approach in a relevant task or conversation. Note what felt useful and what you would adapt.

Review

Reflect on what happened, seek feedback where appropriate and choose your next step. Follow-up support can be discussed separately.

Bring this topic to your next event

We can discuss adapting Resilience & Managing Change into a keynote or large-group session, focusing on the themes most relevant to your audience. Depth, activities, timings and any follow-up depend on the format and package you choose; an event session is not a substitute for the full course.

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