IT STARTS WITH YOU

Module 1 lays the foundations by creating awareness of stress & burnout and how you experience stress in your job. We set the interactive and collaborative tone for the entire course with the first tasks. The first module is all about you and developing one of the keys to enjoying a sustainable coaching career: Self-awareness

• Quickly identify the gradual creep of ongoing stress so you can avoid feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and the urge to procrastinate.
• Spot the early signs of chronic stress in yourself and in your colleagues so you can reduce the risk and severity of burnout and create a supportive working environment.
• Clearly understand the ways in which the work environment contributes to your stress levels in order to maintain or rekindle the love for the job you had when you first started out.
• Complete the noticing tasks to gain the knowledge and self-awareness of where stress is showing up in your life.

Module Features

• 2 Guided Tasks.
• Bonus Material: Coach Insight Video.

GETTING OUT YOUR OWN WAY

Module 1 was all about you, we progress on to how you can effectively navigate your environment by developing a deep understanding of your role within in it.  We will introduce practical exercises which support you in understanding, evolving in and adapting to your environment. You will…

• Gain insight into how your own mind can often work against you when it comes to stress so that you can get out of your own way and remain happy, fulfilled and productive.
• Learn about the uncontrollable nature of stress, so that you can take pleasure in your work and be resilient to the natural pressures of the job.
• Develop a range of appropriate tools and strategies to manage stress so that you can keep hold of your mental, physical and emotional health even under extreme stress and pressure.

Module Features 

• 3 Downloadable Noticing Exercises.
• 1 Blog Post: What's The Deal With Mindfulness.

GUIDED REFLECTION

This module is about using the guided exercise to reflect on what you have learnt so far and how you can apply it to the context of your life. Staying on track and creating confidence by moving through the struggles and challenges with the exercises.

• Effectively summarise your personal takeaways and create simple and actionable daily practices.
• Lean into social support created by the your network so that you no longer feel alone and isolated in your struggles.
• Gain clarity and a clear focus to build upon for the next phases of the course.

Module Features

• Mid Course Reflection Exercises.
• Guided Reflection Task.

SURVIVING TO THRIVING

Building on the self-awarenss skills you have created so far, this module will help you explore your own personal values and how to align them with those of the culture you work in. Learn to work authentically, whilst acknowledging the constraints and stressors of the job.

• Cope with workplace expectations to deliver high-performance work every day so you can turn up as your best self at work and be present and engaged at home.
• Navigate and negotiate your values using the tasksheet so you can understand how they integrate within your orgnaisation, it’s not a one way street.
• Become your true self in and out of work, learn how to create a professional environment which fits into the life you want to lead.
• Use unique decompression strategies to ensure your work stays invigorating, rewarding and fulfilling forever.

Module Features

•  3 Guided Tasks.
•  1 Blog Post: The Weight Of Expectation.

STRATEGIES FOR LIFE

The exact methods which you will use to implement each modules learnings on a day to day basis. Looking after yourself can be a real struggle, this module will help you prevent feeling drained, unproductive, and lost.  Learn and practice mindful management and recovery strategies, and take back control of your own well-being.

• Learn how to take effective ‘micro-breaks’ that work for you, so that you feel energised, invigorated, and ready to take on the daily challenges of your role.
• Be deliberate and purposeful in developing your network, so that you feel supported, valued, and able to talk about your challenges with others who understand.
• Use ‘nudging’ strategies to map out your downtime and recovery, so that you can be on top of your game for your team, clients and loved ones.

Module Features

• Mindfulness Exercises.
• Micro-Break Exercises.

YOUR BURNOUT PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN

We close out the course and set you up for the future in this final module.

• Your bespoke stress management action plan will help you to prevent, manage and recover from excessive stress and give you skills for life.
• Use the lifetime access to the course materials to revisit as life throws it's challenges your way.
• Use the guided reflection exercise and your personal burnout prevention plan to home in on your next steps and how you will carry the lessons into the context of your life.
• Leverage your support community to share your challenges and solutions with people who know you, and can help you stay accountable.

Module Features

• End Of Course Reflection Exercises.
• Stress Management Action Plan.
• Lifetime course content access.

AN ENVIRONMENT FOR THRIVING

This module is about:

• Lead from the front. Don’t tell me mental health is important, show me that it is. Learn to lead and become comfortable with empowering vulnerability in order to connect with your team and build a safe environment to nurture your team.
• Breaking down stigma and barriers to well-being support. create a psychologically safe environment for you and your talented workforce, where teams are comfortable to share and explore stress, challenge and pressure to perform.
• What are your talented team members going through? Use the ‘Help-Seeking Audit’ and then work collaboratively with your teams to build a bespoke environment which allows your staff to feel cared for, heard, understood, respected, supported and invested in.
• Build your conditions to thrive work within your confines. understand the 6 areas of work-life (Reward, Fairness, Control, Community, Values and Workload).  In order to effectively promote well-being and sustainable performance, getting upstream of burnout and stress related absence & reduced productivity.

 Module Features

• 3x demistifying videos: Psychological safety, challenging environments and motivational climate.
• The ‘Help-seeking’ audit. Lowering the threshold to help-seeking.

SUPPORTING HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS

This final module sees us close out the course. We ask the difficult questions around your team and organisations high performance environment.  Nothing changes if nothing changes, so we look to peel back the layers and discuss how you know if your organisation is thriving, and how you move from acknowledging change to implementation and sustainable improvement.

• Is your team surviving or thriving? Understanding your markers and what your teams and organisations specific well-being behaviours look and feel like.
• At what cost? The true impact of placing your team first at all costs. 
• Building a culture of self-care and guidelines for best practice. What is the current example being set with current practices, attitudes and leadership?
• Minority stress. What is it and what are you doing to acknowledge it with your teams? 

Collaborate, challenge and troubleshoot. Leverage the final group call to work through some of your individual and organisational issues, follow up the discussion and deep dive into specific topics in the Thriving Leaders community.

 Module Features

• Guidelines for best practice.
• Stress in minoritized groups - Understanding the needs of the whole workforce.
• Bonus insights video on supporting HP teams.