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Develop Personal Resilience in the Workplace

This one-day highly interactive programme aims at highlighting the critical need to build resiliency in our workplace. The recent pandemic has again revealed the unpredictability and the changes we face constantly. Anxiety and depression are common today. Therefore, it is increasingly important in helping officers to handle the demands of the rapidly changing environment and workplace. According to Kaplan (1999), resilience refers to the capacity of an individual to cope with stress, overcome adversity or adapt positively to change. It involves behaviours, thoughts, and actions. It is estimated that up to 90% of us will experience at least one serious traumatic event during our lives. Traumatic events throw our lives into turmoil in unpredictable ways; no two people will respond to them in the same manner. For some, the stress of the event will become chronic, lasting for years. However, many will find ways to meet the challenge and continue with purposeful lives. For a period after their ordeal, they may become distressed, but in time they will bounce back and carry on. This is resilience. Some survivors will even grow stronger and wiser because of their trauma. The resilient ones often report that their hardship has helped them to appreciate life more, to become closer to family and friends, to find greater meaning in life, and to embark on a refreshed sense of mission at work. And wonderfully, research has shown that resilience can be developed and enhanced to promote greater well-being.

Objective

At the end of this programme participants should be able to:
• Deepen their understanding of applying resiliency against the stresses they face at work and in life.
• Enhance their ability to reduce the common act of rumination and overthinking by mindfulness practices.
• Exercise more flexible thinking when facing challenges.
• Acquire the seven factors of resiliency to thrive at work.

Outline

Welcome and Introduction
• Trainer Introduction & Participant Introductions in small groups of 4 to 5 pax

Acknowledging Personal Strengths in Difficult Time: Reflection
• “What is your key strength in time of difficulties”
• Small group discussion on one evident strength each officer possesses that help in making them resilient

Introduction of Stress Curve
• Introduce performance stress curve
• Bring awareness to our current stress level
• How are we reacting (physically, mentally, and emotionally) when stressed?
• The adverse impact of stress

The Inattention Pandemic
• The cause of rampant distractions
• The impact of distractions
• The remedy needed

The Application of Mindfulness Practices
• The return to Resting Breathing
• The Mindful Movement


The Art of Flexible Thinking
• Identify Non-resilient Underlying beliefs
• Introduction to underlying beliefs
• How some beliefs make us non-resilient in the face of negative events

Introducing ABCD Hypothesis Model
The ABC cognitive reframing technique involves recognizing thoughts triggered by events and understanding the reactions that are driven by those thoughts.
(A), their beliefs
(B) about the event, and the emotional and behavioral
(C) consequences of those thoughts.
(D) disputing the thoughts

The Application of the Seven Resiliency Factors
• Mindfulness-based Focus
• Mental Flexibility
• Grounded Optimism
• Gratitude
• Kindness
• Meaning & Purpose
• Social Support

Q&A

Who should attend

The development of personal resilience in the workplace is beneficial for employees at all levels and across various industries. Resilience training and workshops are designed to help individuals cope with stress, adversity, and change, ultimately leading to improved well-being and performance.

Profile of Dr. Richard Lim

Director, Southeast Asia, Professional School of Psychology, California, USA

Clinical Supervisor, American Psychological Association (APA), Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC)

Professional Member, American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)

Professional Member, Singapore Psychological Society (SPS)

Doctorate, PsyD, Clinical Psychology, Professional School of Psychology, California

Master in Social Science in Counselling, University of South Australia

Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy, Graduate School of Medical Studies, National University of Singapore

Bachelor in Arts and Social Science (HONS), National University of Singapore

Accredited Training Consultant, Legacy Leadership, Texas, USA

Accredited Consultant Trainer, Coach-based Consulting, Santa Fe Center, USA
Advanced training in Mindfulness, Psychodrama, Couple Therapy & Narrative Therapy

Richard focuses his professional consultancy on leadership development and organization coaching. He has worked with groups of leadership staff from multi-national companies like Coca Cola, Microsoft, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Shell, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Barclays Capital, National Panasonic, Fujitsu, Courts, PSA, Continental Auto; International agencies like YMCA, Outward Bounds and World Vision; local government organizations and community institutions such as State Court, NIE, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Trade & Industry, National Environment Agency, National Council of Social Services, Singapore Sports Council, People’s Association, National Centre for Leadership Institute.

Richard works actively with parents of diverse professional backgrounds in Singapore and Jakarta for more than 15 years. As a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist, he is appointed by the Ministry of Social & Family Development and Ministry of Education in Singapore to train both parents and teachers in matter of child, family and education development. Richard was tasked by the Singapore government to oversee various youth projects in Singapore tackling issues on adolescent relationship and sexuality. These were successfully carried out from 2007 till 2014. Richard was also actively managing young adult relationship concerns in Singapore supported by the Social Development Unit under Prime Minister Office. Currently, Richard is the Consultant Psychologist to oversee and train government officials on resilience and wellness with both public and private sector organizations. In the earlier part of Richard’s career, he was a diplomat analyst of Singapore with extensive travels round the world to manage foreign affairs matters.

Richard collaborates with prominent universities in Singapore like NUS and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in training and supervising graduate students and alumni professionals in the application of behaviour science in organizations and the community. Richard was an Adjunct Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Nanyang Business School on management and leadership.

Richard has written professionally for various educational and organizational development projects. Richard has given frequent media interviews on his specialty to Jakarta Now, What’s New Jakarta, The Straits Time, FM93.8Live, Japanese TV, Taiwanese TV and European media programs.