Building Resilience and Bouncing Back After Failure

Confidence & Self-AwarenessWell-being & BalanceAll employees≈ 20 min

Key skill: Resilience

Summary

Resilience is a skill you can learn. This module teaches you to make peace with past failures, defuse the fear of failing, and turn every setback into a learning step so you can dare to take risks again.

Target audience

Anyone looking to promote resilience, agility, and empowerment

Learning objectives

Draw inspiration from resilient people who changed the world
Develop your resilience, your capacity to overcome difficulties and failures
Change how you view the past to turn it into an asset
Stop fearing failure with the help of a 7-step method

Module outline

StorytellingA lesson in managing stress and anxiety, and the importance of focusing on what you can actually influence
ArticlesCommon myths about resilience · Edison and failure: a lesson in perseverance and resilience · Celebrating failure: Intuit's example and its "failure parties"
Expert videoHow to turn failure into opportunities for learning and growth, rather than a reason to censor our dreams
AnchoringA quiz and true/false questions to deepen the topic and anchor what you've learned
Memo cardA downloadable coaching memo card: the key takeaways from the expert video
CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment
BonusA selection of videos to go further (TED, YouTube)

Models & methods

Joël Berger's Stool Theory: 7 steps against the fear of failure; reframing failure as learning.

Research-based

Insights from resilience expert Cal Crow; examples cited: Edison (10,000 attempts), Lincoln, BlaBlaCar, Pernod Ricard.