Resilience is a skill that people can build and you can teach it in the workplace by using building resilience PowerPoint (PPT) slides.
You can use PowerPoint slides as an additional teaching tool, along with classroom activities, quizzes, handouts and other interactive ways to engage your students.
What Is Resilience?
Resilience is the capacity to stand up to hardship, recover from difficulties, and thrive through adversity.
Resilient people have specific characteristics, employ many strategies for resilience, and use different tools to help them. For example, if you are resilient, you tend to have an optimistic outlook, a growth mindset and self-awareness; you tend to be good at problem-solving and are likely to use any support you can access, such as social networks.
Some individuals naturally have greater resilience than others but, as resilience is a skill, everyone can learn it and cultivate it. It just takes some encouragement and explanations to start with (which you can provide as a trainer or coach) and then some time and practice to develop resilience on a daily basis.
If your students feel discouraged, just remind them that, like every skill, with practice and persistence they can develop resilience until they acquire a resilient mindset. Everyone can develop a habit of resilience over time.
Why Resilience in the Workplace Is Important
Resilience is an incredibly important skill to have in any area of life. Specifically in the workplace though, resilient people tend to:
- Be more successful in their career
- Get along better with colleagues
- Be less stressed
- Feel more engaged, satisfied, and motivated (for instance, according to some research carried out by Aon, 86% of employees who can be considered resilient also say that they feel a high level of motivation)
- Have more adaptability and be able to cope with change
For an organization, having resilient managers and employees can lead to greater innovation and productivity and lower staff absenteeism and turnover. So, building resilience in the workplace is essential for everyone.
Why Use PowerPoint for Teaching How to Build Resilience
Resilience is a complex skill, so how can using building resilience PowerPoint slides help you teach this skill and convey your ideas? The truth is that building resilience PPT slides if used by a skilled teacher, can be a powerful tool to deliver conceptual messages.
Using building resilience PowerPoint slides can have various benefits for teachers and students, including:
- Visual impact – This is the greatest and most important benefit of using PPT slides to teach resilience. You can use, for example, colours, infographics, images and videos to convey complex concepts in a way that is engaging.
- Addressing different learning styles – PowerPoint slides are visual tools so they can engage visual learners, but not only. People who learn best by reading can benefit as you can write text on the slides (just make sure to limit the amount of text, use bullet points, and give handouts for longer text if needed); auditory learners will be engaged as you explain the content of the slides; kinesthetic people may be the least engaged by PowerPoint but you can always pair the slides with hands-on classroom activities.
- Dynamic features – PowerPoint supports animation. So, you can show one concept at a time by clicking so that the content of a slide is revealed gradually. This is particularly useful for complex topics such as resilience as it means you can easily break down concepts into smaller ideas.
- Multimedia – You can embed audio and videos in PPT slides. So, you can, for example, embed a video with an interview with someone who is telling their story of resilience.
- Interactivity – How interactive you make your building resilience PPT is up to you, as you can use activities to make the content more interactive. You can use, for example, questionnaires and quizzes, ask questions, run group activities, etc. and the PPT slides are useful reference points on which to anchor all these activities.
Building Resilience PowerPoint Examples
Below, you can see two examples from the building resilience PowerPoint slides from our workplace resilience training materials.
The slide below shows the definition of resilience using images, to provide a visual impact for your students and help them remember the concept more easily. Like many of our slides, this one is dynamic so you can show one part of the image at a time as you explain the definition.
The building resilience PPT slide below addresses the 6 domains of resilience, which refer to the things that make up resilience.
It is useful to highlight these 6 domains so that you can guide your students towards working on different areas of their lives to build resilience. Students then can identify which ones of these domains they need to work more on, based on what they are currently doing or not doing enough of.
How to Download the PowerPoint PPT Slides
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The training materials package includes a carefully researched and designed PowerPoint slide deck, as well as comprehensive teacher notes and handouts for activities. These building resilience PowerPoint slides are fully editable.
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Valeria has a PhD in Sociology, has 25 years+ working in education, has taught at the University of Bath &Cardiff Metropolitan University, & Hankuk University (Korea) & worked as a researcher for Exeter University, & has many years of industry experience including with Cardiff University in management roles. She now creates training course materials courseware.