Week 1: What is resilience?
Introduction
Each week of the course will start with a short video introducing the topics that will be covered. Get started with Week 1 by watching this video:
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Transcript: Video 1 Introduction to Week 1
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This week you’ll explore what resilience means, comparing personal and career resilience and identifying some of the stress factors in your own life. You’ll see how important career resilience can be throughout your working life, in helping you to progress, achieve your ambitions and cope with change.
Video 1 Introduction to Week 1
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By the end of this week, you will be able to:
- understand the meaning of the term ‘resilience’
- explain the difference between personal resilience and career resilience
- identify some of the stress factors in your life
- recognise the important role that career resilience plays throughout your career and working life
- understand how an individual might transition through change in the workplace.
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