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Personal & Professional Resilience

Overview

This course equips participants with the knowledge and skills to build personal and professional resilience. It provides insights into how to manage challenges, setbacks, and adversity in both personal and work environments. By focusing on self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and positive mindset development, participants will learn how to thrive under pressure and bounce back from difficult situations.

Why Should an Individual Attend?

  • Master Emotional Regulation. Learn how to stay focused, motivated, and emotionally balanced—even in high-pressure situations.
  • Boost Your Adaptability. Become more agile and flexible in the face of change, uncertainty, and workplace demands.
  • Strengthen Relationships. Build self-efficacy and emotional intelligence to foster deeper, more effective personal and professional connections.
  • Build Mental Toughness. Gain practical tools to bounce back from setbacks and maintain a solution-focused mindset.
  • Enhance Self-Awareness. Understand how your thoughts and behaviors shape your resilience—and how to shift them positively.
  • Cultivate a Growth Mindset.Develop the habits and perspectives that help you thrive under stress and remain productive.
  • Improve Overall Well-being. Use self-reflection techniques to support emotional wellness and long-term personal growth.

Outcomes

At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

  • Build self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
  • Understand the relationship between thoughts, behaviours, and resilience.
  • Gain tools to bounce back from life’s setbacks.
  • Develop a positive mindset and emotional control in stressful situations.
  • Learn to adapt to changes and remain solution focused.
  • Develop an understanding of resilience and how it impacts personal and professional life.
  • Learn practical strategies to handle adversity and recover from setbacks.
  • Build emotional intelligence for effective interaction in personal and work environments.
  • Cultivate a growth mindset to manage stress and remain productive under pressure.
  • Enhance self-reflection techniques to improve emotional well-being.

Program Outline

  • Introduction to Resilience: Understanding resilience and its importance in life and work.
  • Living a Balanced Life: Examining the dimensions of life balance and how they contribute to resilience.
  • Self-Evaluation Against Quality of Life Dimensions: Tools and assessments for self-awareness.
  • How I Think – The Head: Cognitive strategies for building mental toughness and emotional control.
  • How I Feel – The Heart: Emotional intelligence and relationship management.
  • How I Act – The Hands: Practical strategies for building and maintaining resilience in daily life.

Who Should Attend?

  • Engineers
  • Technicians
  • Architects
  • Project / Construction Managers
  • Quantity Surveyors
  • Construction Health and Safety
  • Contractors / Sub Contractors
  • Executives / Senior Management
  • Middle Management
  • Administrators / Support Staff
Coordinator: Blessings Banda
Fee:
R 3 800.00 excl. VAT
R 4 370.00 incl. VAT
Schedules:
  • Online
  • Wed 5 November 2025  08:30 to 16:30
  • Validation Number: CESA-2112-07/2025
  • ECSA CPD Points: 1.00