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The Challenge of Change (Resilience Training)

Presented by the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand
Led by Dr Derek Roger MA PhD


Introduction

Resilience is a fundamental life skill that can be learned and perfected, and resilient people work smarter because they can negotiate the inevitable changes that are the one certainty of life. This is never more relevant than in an economic climate of instability and recession.

People who don’t become stressed are resilient. Resilience is a fundamental, learnable skill that takes the stress out of work and home life, and allows people to be happier, more efficient and more productive.

The CoC Resilience training is led by business psychologist Dr Derek Roger, who has a varied and dynamic career both as an academic and as a business psychologist working with major UK and NZ organisations. A renowned specialist in the fields of personality, psychometrics and resilience training, Derek has unique insight into what makes people tick and why people behave in certain ways.

Level: General

Course Description

The Challenge of Change Resilience training programme offers a radical alternative that has been shown to impact significantly on job satisfaction and performance. The programme was developed by Dr Derek Roger, one of the world’s leading experts in the field of resilience and stress management.

Course components include a comprehensive pre-training questionnaire, The Challenge of Change Profile, which adds a unique and significant dimension to the training. Derek’s 30 year research programme that began at the University of York, and continues today at the University of Canterbury, identified eight key behaviours that are known to be implicated in making people more or less resilient. These eight scales form the pre-training Challenge of Change Profile, a validated psychometric questionnaire that all participants complete beforehand. The scores remain confidential to participants, and what they measure is only disclosed during the course of the training.

In addition to the pre-work the programme includes a detailed workbook and an audio CD, providing comprehensive follow-on materials to ensure that the benefits of the training are reinforced and consolidated.

Learning Objectives

  • Enhanced well-being and performance
  • Understanding of personal strengths and weaknesses
  • Ability to apply a simple four-step strategy for enhancing resilience
  • Improved communication skills
  • Appreciation of strategies for mind relaxation

HRINZ HR Competencies Include

  • HR Delivery (Staffing and Recruitment, Development)
  • Personal Credibility (Effective Relationships, Achieving Results, Personal Communication)
  • Strategic Contribution (Customer Focus)

Who Should Attend

The course is suitable for all, as everyone can benefit from enhanced resilience - and is particularly relevant for those who feel they are too busy to attend a training course!

The Programme - Timetable

Part 1: Sets objectives, and provides an overview of conventional approaches to resilience and why they don’t work. A clear distinction is drawn between pressure and stress, and shows that while pressure is a powerful motivating force, there is no such thing as useful stress.

Part 2: Shows how people are asleep much of the time. The first two steps in the programme are introduced - waking up and controlling attention – and stress is re-defined in a unique way. The link between stress and health is explained, and shows why your pet cat is unlikely to die of heart disease. The session concludes with specific tools for waking up and staying in control.

Part 3: Uses a purpose-designed pre-training psychometric profile to explore focused and detailed action-plans for implementing change. The individual profile results are confidential to each participant. The profile is used to develop the next two steps in the programme – becoming detached and letting go – which are illustrated by catching monkeys.

Part 4: Extends the principles of The Challenge of Change to communication, using the four steps to show how to communicate more effectively.

Part 5: Places the training programme into the wider context of factors such as diet and exercise and their role in well-being. The links between stress at work and at home are explored, though not based on ‘work/life balance’, which implies that at work you don’t have a life.

Part 6: Focuses on specific implementation exercises in establishing the life skills described by The Challenge of Change, including exercises in mindfulness which are included in a take-home CD.

The Presenter - Dr Derek Roger

Before moving to New Zealand in 2003, Derek Roger directed the Stress Research Unit at the University of York. Derek’s research contradicts conventional ideas about stress and stress management, and he developed a unique and revolutionary practical training system for developing resilience entitled 'The Challenge of Change'. Derek’s work on resilience and stress management is internationally recognised, and the Work Skills Centre consultancy established to market the programme is a major provider of resilience and teamwork training in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

Comments from Past Participants

“Participants have gone from not coping very well with the demands of their roles prior to the programme, to coping very well within weeks of completing The Challenge of Change. They are applying the techniques they have been taught and are experiencing immediate positive pay off, and our business as a whole is benefiting from this change.” - Jane Davis, Head of Talent Management, The Warehouse

“The fact that The Challenge of Change is backed by research was important in gaining acceptance amongst our staff. We also found the individual assessments to be not only accurate but empowering, giving people real opportunities for improvement.” - Garth Dibley, Markets & Production Director, Meridian Energy

The fact that The Challenge of Change is backed by academic research made a great fit with our organization and it has been very well received. More importantly, months after the course I still hear people referring to the principles they learned on the course and discussing their practice of them.” - Cynthia Johnson, OD Leader, Hort Research

2012 Dates and Venues

Auckland 25 September 2012, 9.00-5.00pm (Register Now)
Venue: Elephant HR Training Rooms, Level 4, Canterbury Arcade, 166 - 174 Queen Street, Central Auckland

Led by Dr Derek Roger

Registration Fees

HRINZ Member $895+gst
Non member $1295+gst

Your course fee includes a workbook, lunch and morning and afternoon tea.

Cancellations

Please see the cancellation policy.

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