Name: Wellbeing and Resilience at Work
Rating: 5.0 (22 reviews)

Develop your understanding of workplace wellbeing

Are you ready to tackle today’s rapidly moving world of work?

This two-week course will teach you how to learn, develop, and adapt to changes in the workplace, and how to cope with its demanding environment.

Hearing from professionals and using practical examples, you’ll learn the value of resilience and adaptability and how it has helped others create successful careers. You’ll also examine the reasons why employers are looking for these skills in particular.

Learn how to thrive in a digital workplace

With guidance from experts, you’ll discover how developing new skills helps you to do your job more effectively and adapt to new roles and ways of working.

To help you succeed in the digital workplace, you’ll learn how to evaluate your current strengths and identify the value of workplace wellbeing for yourself.

Demonstrate your adaptability skills to shine in an interview

To feel ready to show your skills in an interview, you’ll assess and practice your own adaptability.

By the end of the course, you’ll have the resilience and skills to look after yourself in the workplace, so you can forge a happier and healthier career.

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Skip to 0 minutes and 7 seconds Tuyen Do: In today’s digital workplace, change is constant. And the need to learn, develop, and adapt with our careers is essential. Are you ready to take on this challenge? Wellbeing and Resilience at Work is one of three courses exploring thriving in the digital workplace. You’ll discover what resilience is, why you need to have it, and how to develop it. You’ll also hear about people’s experiences of how resilience has helped them to create amazing careers. Using practical examples, you’ll learn how being adaptable can help in an ever-changing world of work. You’ll assess your own adaptability. And be ready to demonstrate your resilience and adaptability in an interview.

Skip to 0 minutes and 51 seconds This course will guide you to looking after yourself so you can have a happy and healthy career.

What topics will you cover?

What it means to be resilient
How to be resilient
Creating a resiliency plan
What it means to be adaptable
Assessing your adaptability
Demonstrating resilience and adaptability

When would you like to start?

Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.

Available now

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Identify the key features of resilience
Assess the techniques for growing your resilience
Develop a plan to improve your resilience
Identify the key features of personal adaptability
Assess your adaptability and develop a plan to improve it
Demonstrate your ability to adapt

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for people who have some digital skills but want to build confidence and knowledge in using digital technology in the workplace.

You could be studying, a graduate, re-entering the workplace, or looking to improve your career prospects.

If you want to further your understanding, you may be interested in these courses. They’re from the same provider and share similar subject matter and overall learning outcomes:

Who will you learn with?

Sophie Pendrell

Sophie has worked with digital media for over 30 years both as an artist, producer and educator. She now works remotely from her home beside the sea.

Who developed the course?

University of Leeds

As one of the UK’s largest research-based universities, the University of Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and a centre of excellence for teaching.

Click Start

This course is part of Click Start, a nationwide training programme developed by the Institute of Coding (IoC) , a national collaboration of universities, employers and charities and funded by Nominet – the public benefit company and guardians of the .UK namespace.

Institute of Coding

The Institute of Coding (IoC) is a national collaboration of employers, universities, and charities, on a mission to provide people from all walks of life with access to digital learning and career opportunities.

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What's included?

University of Leeds are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:

Unlimited access to this course

Includes any articles, videos, peer reviews and quizzes

Tests to validate your learning

A PDF Certificate of Achievement to prove your success when you’re eligible

Learning on FutureLearn

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Join a global classroom

Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

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Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate

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