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Learning network Three Resilience, Transformational Personal Branding and Progressing Career Pathways Thursday 13 February 2020

Moving up – BAME leadership programme The Skills for Care welcomes you to: Learning Network 3 Resilience, Transformational Personal Branding and Progressing Career Pathways

Taking Stock and building momentum What’s been happening for you since the last session 1. 2. What are you more aware of about your leadership as a consequence of the last session? 3. What do you need to be doing more of and what do you need to do less of?

Workshop Outline Check-in 09:30 – 10:00 Resilience 10:00 – 11:00 Break 11:00 – 11:15 Transformational Personal Branding 11:15 – 12:30 Lunch 12:30 – 13:30 Career Anchors 13:30 – 14:45 Break 14:45 – 15:00 CVs, Recruitment and Interviews 15:00 – 16:15 Review and Homework 16:15 – 16:30 Close 16:30

Focus ▪ This learning network critically explores Resilience, Transformational Personal Branding and Career Anchors. ▪ Focus is also given to CVS, Recruitment, Interviews and Career Progression

Aims for today… ▪ To explore the nature of your resilience ▪ To consider your personal branding and what you stand for ▪ To consider the significance of career anchors, cv, recruitment and interviews in enhancing career pathways ▪ To support navigation of the system and career progression .

Objectives for today… By the end of the module participants will: ▪ Explore the nature of your own resilience and the value of “resilient leadership” ▪ Identify ways to understand and share your personal brand and what you stand for in inspiring ways ▪ Recognise how career anchors can influence individual behaviour and career choices ▪ Use action learning methodology to explore CVs, grow in awareness of recruitment processes and enhance interview performance ▪ To consider how best to navigate the system and manage career progression

How we work together today ▪ Be ‘self - managing‘ – in the best sense of the term! ▪ High challenge – both of self and others – be open!! ▪ Readiness to change and a commitment to do what you say you’re going t to do ▪ Take yourself seriously – it’s going to be DYNAMIC WORK!

Resilience

What is resilience ? ▪ “Resilience is a process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, threats or even significant sources of stress” American Psychological Association ▪ (being resilient does not mean we do not feel stress, pain, sadness – the road to building resilience can be strewn with emotional distress) ▪ “ Resilience is not only about overcoming, it is also about the ability to enhance the positive aspects of our lives. …. A Shatte “the Resilience Factor”

Why Resilience matters Increasing resilience is one strategy for overcoming much of life’s calamities and trials ▪ Makes it possible to turn trials into triumphs ▪ To grow, extend and change in directions that open new avenues ▪ Cast off harsh self image and others unfair perspective It is a key capability to ‘overcoming’, breaking through systemic and social barriers to success ▪ Resilient people are more tenacious - confound conventional wisdom - take chances , embrace life ▪ Better able to ‘think outside the box’ ▪ Creative in achieving goals in spite of environmental barriers A tool for ‘bouncing back’ from difficult experiences, trauma, loss, life challenges

Understanding resilience

Amygdala Hijack Watching for it in inappropriate situations, enhancing self awareness to enhance management & control ▪ The amygdala – is located above the brain stem - one half on each side of the brain. Its primary role is the service of emotions - generates emotions, stores emotional memories, provides emotional meaning ▪ The amygdala – makes it possible to experience joy, sorrow, fear, rage , passion ▪ When our emotions totally override the ‘thinking ‘ part ie cognitive - we react to how we feel rather than think - responding to the rage we feel, the fear, anger, the joy, the excitement ---our response happens really quickly eg road / air rage , fly off the handle , loose it despite planned intentions to stay calm ▪ We let the richer information , important and detailed facts get side stepped in an emotional reaction ▪ Interventions , strategies needed – to manage extreme emotional provocation, stimuli to shift out of Amygdala mode to rational thinking mode - resilient thinking a tool to assist

Thriving Flourishin Stressful ‘STEP UP’ g Situations Resilience Focused, ‘BOUNCE Flexible, UP’ Flowing Homeostasis Diminished Floundering ‘PUT UP’ Disruption (Overwhelmed) Succumb Failure ‘GIVE UP’

Thinking traps - you are most vulnerable to? Thinking trap Resilient strategies Jumping to conclusions – thinking errors Gather more information, delay action, think from making assumptions without relevant back data Tunnel Vision – sampling not taking in Strategies to broaden radar ie scanning whole picture , selective noticing i.e. the more widely for unexpected data ie negatives, miss the peripherals, blind sided, observing, noticing. Being more curious screen in data consistent with our beliefs Magnifying and Minimising – extreme Take stock of the situation, appraise it accurately – use others to help balance pessimists and optimists listen to the stories you tell, and over and under valuing takes perspective & focus place. Aaron Beck – father of cognitive therapy

Thinking traps - you are most vulnerable to? Thinking trap Resilient strategies Personalizing – tendency to attribute Consider the whole causal bag, identify problems to one’s own doing. See internal behaviours/mindset that you can alter, skills causes & ignore external skewing to build to succeed next time shift conclusions/reframe ‘I failed on this one but assessment I’m not a failure … so can practice and do better next time ‘ Externalising – flip side of personalising , Gather self data increase self awareness also skewed assessment of situation. and act on development gaps Problems seen rarely as your fault, self protecting, blame oriented. Fail to identify areas for growth Aaron Beck – father of cognitive therapy

Thinking traps - you are most vulnerable to? Thinking trap Resilient strategies Overgeneralising – eg assassinate Ask – is there a behaviour in here causing the problem that can be addressed – mine own/others character by attributing or another’s momentary lapse to serious personal character flaws Mind reading – leads to making Ask, communicate how you feel , are , think, assumptions, projections, jumping to feedback observations to check out what, conclusions that may be inaccurate and why others are behaving, acting rather than behaviour/reaction that frustrate success. risk interpreting inaccurately we expect others to know how we feel /think and respond – they are not mind readers Emotional reasoning – inaccurate Self honesty & reflection that informs action attributing of emotion ie euphoria at end of and growth presentation attributed to good performance when really due to relief from heightened Aaron Beck – father of cognitive therapy anxiety

Resilience - capability that can be developed ▪ The good news is that Resilience can be grown and developed – its not genetically fixed, you can boost your level of resilience ▪ “Resilience involves behaviours, thoughts and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone …” A Shatte “the Resilience Factor” ▪ Some are just better are drawing on the inner and external resources to develop strategies that increase resilience ▪ enable to deal with setbacks ▪ Embrace challenge not shirk ▪ We may be more resilient in some areas than others ▪ Most of us get no or very little coaching in ‘how to handle adversity’ - though some are born into tough environments that require the development of resilience very early, many others however have to learn it along life way - with practice, we can

Resilience – Critical capability to have ▪ To profoundly change how well we handle set backs, blocks and failure ▪ To affect how able we are to take risk, approach challenges ▪ To think keenly when embroiled in conflict - negotiate and strategise effectively ▪ To listen to our inner voice/ thought to ensure they shore us up not drain ▪ To handle the stressful times of life, to bounce back and grow ▪ To make tough decisions in moments of chaos ▪ To stay ‘on course’ in spite of derailing ▪ To flourish not simply minimise damage - be more productive, excited , energised in life ▪ To negate impact of inaccurate thinking - non resilient thinking - leads to holding inaccurate/limiting beliefs , leads to unproductive approaches and solutions

Identify the adversities that are most challenging to you ? Activity 1 (A) Activity 2 (B and C) ▪ ▪ What are the adversities you really battle What with ▪ is your thinking style ▪ In work ▪ are the ‘in the moment beliefs’ ▪ In life directing how handle the situation ▪ Select at least 2 ▪ what you say to yourself when ▪ Typically how do you handle, respond confronted with that adversity ( ▪ What impact on outcomes ticker tape messages ) /consequences ie on emotions and ▪ What ‘Thinking traps ‘ behaviour ▪ What strategies and approaches would help build greater Resilience ADVERSITY, BELIEFS, CONSEQUENCES (ABC)