wellbeing & resilience

A full-day practical workshop for managers who want to protect their own capacity and support their team through pressure.

Working through real scenarios to build the skills for staying steady yourself, then for noticing and supporting a team member who's struggling.

    • Recognise early signs of pressure and emotional overload in yourself

    • Stay calm and steady in challenging situations

    • Sustain your own energy and motivation under pressure

    • Recognise when a team member is showing signs of strain

    • Support a team member under pressure without absorbing their stress

    • Build habits, individually and as a team, that protect capacity over time

  • 09:30 – 09:45
    Introduction and context
    Understanding pressure in public sector work, and the two sides of managing it

    Part One: Protecting Your Own Capacity

    09:45 – 10:30
    Recognising pressure and internal responses
    Using the Head-Heart-Gut model to notice whether a reaction is coming from logic, emotion or instinct

    10:30 – 11:15
    Staying steady in the moment
    A guided state reset: a quick check-in, box breathing, posture and a shift in inner dialogue

    11:15 – 11:30
    Break

    11:30 – 12:15
    Sustaining your own energy
    Using motivational driver cards to identify what fuels and what drains you, and agreeing habits to protect it

    12:15 – 12:45
    Applying it to yourself
    Practising the reset in a real pressure scenario from your own work

    12:45 – 13:30
    Lunch

    Part Two: Recognising and Supporting Strain in Your Team

    13:30 – 14:15
    Recognising strain in your team
    Noticing early signs that someone is struggling, and how pressure shows up differently across a team

    14:15 – 15:00
    Supporting your team without overloading yourself
    Offering steadiness to a team member under pressure, and where the line is between supporting and absorbing their stress

    15:00 – 15:15
    Break

    15:15 – 16:00
    Applying it to your team
    Working through a real situation involving a team member under strain, and planning how to support them

    16:00 – 16:30
    Commitments and close
    Agreeing what you will do differently from tomorrow, and how it connects to the shared standards set at pathway kickoff.

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