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“More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. That’s true in the cancer ward, it’s true in the Olympics, and it’s true in the boardroom.”
Harvard Business Review, May 2002
The course Personal Skills - Resilience is an intensive 2.5 day Master-class designed to educate, empower and inspire participants to discover and improve their own levels of resilience. The programme will give them insights into key sources of resilience and a sense of their own strengths and weaknesses. Most importantly it will provide practical strategies, tactics and tools to bolster the relevant skills to increase the participant's level of resilience.
After completing this course, students will have the ability to:
- Understand where resilience comes from
- Recognise the areas of strength as well as development areas
- Capitalise on personal strong aspects and develop personal weaker ones to improve the overall resilience
- Reduce the risk of illness and burn-out by applying the key principles of physical wellbeing
- Experience the positive power of future focus – knowing the aims and how resilient people are going to get there
- Realise unparalleled levels of self-confidence and inner drive
- Understand the crucial importance of strong relationships and how to improve them
- Think more laterally, creatively and flexibly than before
- Face the future with optimism, build-up the knowledge what resources are needed to keep pace with today's challenges
20% literature-review and presentation
60% in-class trainings (individual and group assessment)
20% reflection paper (individual assessment)
In case of any administrative questions please contact barbara.mehner@wu.ac.at
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