Why fruit bowls and yoga aren’t enough: vital skills every organisation needs to know for promoting resilience in 2021

We’re facing another year of uncertainty and change, and we all know how important it is to prioritise wellbeing and resilience in our workplace. People have been asking us what should they be doing and providing for their staff.

So we are excited to announce a masterclass being held on 18 May in partnership with the Decipher Group that will upskill leaders to better understand what they can do for employee and organisational resilience.

Join Dr Lucy Hone and Dr Denise Quinlan to learn the six things leaders need to know to build a resilient team in 2021, including:

How to help people embrace or cope with change and uncertainty
Strategies for maintaining relationships and connection through periods of isolation
Supporting wellbeing for diverse workforces across different contexts
Individual strategies to avoid burnout and support resilience
What teams can do to protect each other from burnout
How to meet human needs for autonomy, support and connection to build a culture of sustainable high performance
Case studies from national and international organisations
Workbook for reducing burnout in teams

You will also learn why individual strategies are not enough and what needs to happen at the organisational level to build psychological resilience.

Takeaways include practical team and organisation-wide strategies that make staff burnout less likely while increasing individual and team performance.

You will also receive an electronic copy of Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Wellbeing and Resilience by Paula Davis.
A first-of-its-kind, science-backed toolkit takes a holistic approach to burnout prevention by helping individuals, teams, and leaders build resilience and thrive at work.

Chicago-based, Paula is a world-leading authority training teams to avoid burnout, and will share with us foundation strategies for building resilient teams on the day.

Plus the highly sought-after Mary Kennett will share best-practice stories and steps you can take to build a resilient culture in your workplace. With over 20 years’ experience in the USA leading HR & organisation transformation for global companies, Mary knows what it takes for organisations to successfully work and thrive through change.

Organisations that harness basic human motivation, and promote psychological safety, achieve both increased resilience and higher performance.

Introducing Dr Lucy Hone

Dr Lucy Hone had long been on a mission to translate the best of resilience psychology to help people cope with challenge and change, when personal tragedy transformed her understanding of resilience from the academic to the personal in 2014. Her book, Resilient Grieving, and her TED talk, 3 Secrets of Resilient People (among the Top 20 TED talks of 2020), has fuelled demand for her Keynote presentations globally. Originally from London, trained by the thought leaders in the field at the University of Pennsylvania, and now at the University of Canterbury, her research is published internationally and her PhD acknowledged for its outstanding contribution to wellbeing science. She is co-author of the Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing, co-convenor of Wellbeing in Education NZ, presenter on many of NZIWR’s online courses and has featured in the Guardian, the Washington Post, the BBC and ABC, Channel News Asia, Swedish Television, The Bolt Report Australia and TVNZ.

Introducing Dr Denise Quinlan

Dr Denise Quinlan is acknowledged internationally as an outstanding facilitator and speaker who will expand and challenge your understanding of wellbeing and strengths psychology. Her diverse experience means she is equally at home with senior leaders, students, factory workers, or marginalised groups. Originally an equity analyst on the London Stock Exchange, and management consultant with Deloitte and KPMG in the UK and NZ, her career has spanned guest lecturing on the Executive Masters in Positive Leadership & Strategy at IE University Madrid and working alongside Prof Martin Seligman and Dr Karen Reivich delivering the Penn Resilience Program in Australia and the UK. Author of the Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing, Denise has worked with schools from around the world to support wellbeing. A regular presenter at national and international wellbeing conferences, her research is published in international academic journals and several edited volumes. Her Podcast, Bringing Wellbeing to Life, explores wellbeing topics with leading researchers and practitioners from around the world.