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Professional Resilience: Building Skills to Thrive (FutureLearn)

Offered by Deakin University,
Professional Resilience: Building Skills to Thrive (FutureLearn)

Learn how to become more resilient in your personal and professional life. In a fast-paced world facing complex global challenges resilience is no longer just a desirable skill - it’s a crucial one. Having a high level of professional and emotional resilience enables you to thrive in the face of stressful situations at work, and in life in general. On this course, you’ll learn what resilience is. You’ll explore the capabilities, skills, and self-care practices that contribute to building resilience.

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You will develop resilience skills for yourself, so you’re ready to meet both professional and personal challenges.

What topics will you cover?

  • overview of resilience and why it’s important
  • steps to becoming more resilient
  • building resilient capabilities and skills
  • building resilient self-care practices
  • building resilient values and engagement

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Define and explain resilience
  • Apply resilience frameworks to your professional career
  • Create your own personal resilience plan.
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