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More than holding on: The three kinds of resilience at work

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A child learning to walk falls thousands of times and never decides that walking isn’t for them.

Getting back up is one thing; getting back up together is another; and changing shape when the world changes is a third. This module untangles these three strengths, shows how to grow each—in yourself, in your team, and with the tools reshaping jobs—and stresses one limit: your personal strength must never excuse a system that wears people down.

~20 min at your own paceKey skill: Professional ResilienceAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites

What you’ll take away

  • three personal levers: self-knowledge, taking ownership, and the courage to try new things
  • some examples of organizations that bounced back with full transparency
  • the image of a plant facing a new climate, to understand what reinventing yourself means

Who it’s for

Anyone who wants to stay steady through shocks and keep going in a job that is changing.

Learning objectives

  1. Strengthen individual resilience: get back up without defining yourself by your failures, using three personal levers.
  2. Build collective resilience: trust, transparency, the right to make mistakes, and shared purpose, including blameless project post-mortems.
  3. Explore transformative resilience: reinvent yourself in a world that is now brittle and nonlinear, rather than trying to return to your former shape.
  4. Stay true to your values while steering AI tools, so you can transform without losing yourself.

How does this module work?

The steps of the Adaptive module.

  1. Self-assessmentOn nine dimensions, to gauge current habits and guide the practice.
  2. Expert videoA ~10 min video with three pauses for reflection.
  3. Practice scenariosThe first two scenarios chosen from the self-assessment, then sixteen more, optional. Every answer gets feedback: what it leads to, and one way to improve.
  4. Dated commitmentOne action to try, written by the learner or chosen from the suggestions.
  5. Memo to downloadKey takeaways, questions, commitment, personal notes, and checklists.

Duration: ~20 min. Excluding bonus practice scenarios and optional in-depth content.

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Let’s discuss your goals and where this module fits in your training program.