Building Resilience: How to Thrive in the Face of Life's Challenges - Couverture souple

Warner, Rod

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 186922745X ISBN 13 : 9781869227456

Editeur : Knowledge Resources Publishing Pty Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Building Resilience is the key to not just coping, but flourishing, in an increasingly complex and volatile world. Imagine having abundant inner strength and resourcefulness to withstand and recover quickly from whatever difficulties life may throw at you. With Building Resilience you can. Packed with practical exercises and inspirational stories, this groundbreaking, research-based book will show you (step-by-step) how to cultivate inner resilience and stand unshakeable in the face of life's challenges. Building Resilience offers practical tools to help you master modern-day stresses and stop them from negatively affecting your work, colleagues and family. No matter what personal or professional challenges come your way, you will be able to:

• Remain calm and healthy,
• Reduce worry,
• Experience more hope and optimism, and
• Bounce back stronger than before!

The book is divided into three parts. The first part covers how resilience works, the resilience building blocks, principles and steps, and includes a personal resilience questionnaire.

Building Resilience is the key to not just coping, but flourishing, in an increasingly complex and volatile world. Imagine having abundant inner strength and resourcefulness to withstand and recover quickly from whatever difficulties life may throw at you. With Building Resilience you can. Packed with practical exercises and inspirational stories, this groundbreaking, research-based book will show you (step-by-step) how to cultivate inner resilience and stand unshakeable in the face of life's challenges. Building Resilience offers practical tools to help you master modern-day stresses and stop them from negatively affecting your work, colleagues and family. No matter what personal or professional challenges come your way, you will be able to:

• Remain calm and healthy,
• Reduce worry,
• Experience more hope and optimism, and
• Bounce back stronger than before!

The book is divided into three parts. The first part covers how resilience works, the resilience building blocks, principles and steps, and includes a personal resilience questionnaire.

Part two covers seven principles of resilience with stories, tools and exercises on how each can be improved:

• Connect to your meaning in life
• Use your strengths
• Maintain perspective
• Generate positive feelings
• Be realistically positive
• Persevere by being open minded and flexible

Part three applies the building resilience principles and tools to work which apply to work and home settings. The work section outlines several strategies with practical exercises to create resilient teams. The home section contains 24 activities to enhance and reinforce children's resilience.

Rod has over 20 years' experience in the field of performance improvement and has researched and published in the field of resilience. He runs the internationally acclaimed Building Resilience workshops. Delegates in the workshop say the exercises and tools in this book changed their lives.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rod Warner is based in Cape Town and heads up Building Resilience. He has wide consulting experience and in-depth experience in learning, design facilitation and skills development. He has researched, developed interventions, presented and published in the field in building resilience, change management and organisational performance. He has held positions heading up HR and Development and in sales and marketing. He has a degree in psychology and economics and a postgraduate teacher diploma and is a Chartered HR Practitioner with the South African Board of Personal Practice. He has run over 100 marathons and ultra marathons, including 20 Comrades Marathons.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knowledge Resources Publishing Pty Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 186922745X
• ISBN 13: 9781869227456
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 333
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible