Personal Resilience
Build personal resilience and respond effectively under pressure. This practical resilience training course helps you manage stress, handle challenges with confidence, and maintain control in demanding workplace situations.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Understand what resilience is and how it applies in the workplace
- Recognise stress triggers and emotional responses under pressure
- Apply practical techniques to manage emotions and maintain control
- Develop coping strategies to handle change and uncertainty
- Build confidence, assertiveness and emotional awareness
- Maintain energy, focus and performance in challenging situations
Who is this course for?
Professionals who want to improve how they respond to pressure, change and uncertainty at work. Particularly relevant for individuals working in demanding or fast-paced environments, and for organisations looking to support resilience, wellbeing and sustained performance across their teams.
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Course Outline
Course overview
Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)
The aim of the workshop is to help participants enhance their ability to deal positively with shifting situations by exploring their own approach to change and uncertainty.
Delegates will learn about themselves and their own emotional triggers and will practice techniques to improve personal resilience in challenging situations.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Explain what resilience is
- Demonstrate how personality influences our perceptions
- Learn to recognise triggers and signs of stress
- Develop coping strategies to manage emotional triggers
- Develop resilience techniques to meet daily challenges
- Develop assertiveness, confidence and emotional control to improve personal resilience
Content
Introduction to Resilience and Mental Toughness
- Describe what resilience is
- Describe what Mental Toughness is
- Determine the elements of resilience
Identifying and Managing your triggers
- Recognise the triggers, causes and signs that require you to be resilient
- Decide what you can tackle by identifying areas of concern and influence
- Identify the barriers - what enables and hinders resilience
Developing assertiveness, confidence and emotional control.
- Develop confidence and assertion whilst minimising worry
- Enhance and maintain adaptability and flexibility
Personality and Resilience
- Recognise how thought cycles affect outcomes
- Develop a sense of self through the exploration of values
- Assess and identify practical tips to taking steps in resilience
- Identify and grow your support network
Why Choose Underscore for Personal Resilience Training?
Underscore Group delivers practical, instructor-led training that helps people manage pressure, build resilience, and perform effectively in demanding workplace environments. Based in Sussex and supporting organisations across the UK, we specialise in relatable, real-world learning that strengthens capability at every level — from early-career professionals to experienced managers.
Every session is tailored to your organisation’s culture, values and ways of working, ensuring the skills taught transfer directly into day-to-day behaviour. Our leadership and people-skills programmes are trusted by organisations across finance, aviation, healthcare, construction and professional services.
- Trusted by leading UK organisations
- Expert trainers with real business experience
- Small-group sessions (6–8 people)
- Practical, hands-on learning approach
- Virtual & onsite delivery across the UK
- Six months of post-course support
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