Developing Resilience

A half-day workshop building the coping skills and techniques to manage stress and adversity.

Amid workplace change and the push for personal and organisational excellence, employees can easily find themselves running low on reserves. This workshop gives participants coping techniques and strategies to manage stress and adversity, and builds the flexibility, adaptability, and optimism that underpin long-term resilience. Participants leave with a range of behavioural and cognitive techniques to strengthen both their physical and mental resilience.

Duration: Half day  ·  Delivery: Online or Face-to-face  ·  Cohort: 8-20 participants

Aligned to the APS Craft Capability Framework and APS Workforce Strategy 2025.

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What your team will learn

Techniques for coping with stress and building resilience that lasts.

Participants come away with a clear definition of resilience and an understanding of its personal and organisational benefits. They build strategies for long-term resilience and optimism, and learn how to apply resilience techniques when facing stress and adversity. The workshop also covers how to use these techniques to support and enable others, and how to identify the strategies and mechanisms that support ongoing growth.

What we cover

    • Understanding resilience — Defining resilience and identifying its personal and organisational benefits.
    • Building long-term resilience — Identifying strategies for building resilience and optimism over time.
    • Managing stress and adversity — Applying resilience techniques in cases of stress and adversity.
    • Supporting others — Using resilience techniques to support and enable others.
    • Support and growth — Identifying strategies and mechanisms for ongoing support, guidance, and growth.

Workshop format

Half a day, delivered to your team as a closed cohort.

McMillan’s Developing Resilience workshop gives participants a range of behavioural and cognitive techniques to manage stress and adversity. Participants build the flexibility, adaptability, and optimism that support long-term resilience, both for themselves and in supporting others.

At a glance

    • Length: Half day
    • Audience: All — tailored to audience as required
    • Delivery: Online (live, facilitated) or Face-to-face
    • Cohort size: Minimum 8, maximum 20 participants
    • Approach: Facilitated instruction and practical activities

Who the workshop is for

Suitable for team members at any level — tailored to the seniority and function of your cohort.

Developing Resilience is designed for team members at any level who want to build their capacity to cope with stress and workplace pressure. We tailor content and examples to your cohort’s seniority and function before delivery.

Typical cohorts

    • Teams facing sustained pressure or workplace change
    • Staff wanting to build long-term resilience and optimism
    • Whole teams wanting a shared set of techniques for managing stress and supporting each other

When this workshop is a good fit:

    • Staff are feeling the effects of sustained workplace pressure or change
    • You want your team equipped with practical strategies for managing stress and adversity
    • Staff would benefit from techniques to support and enable resilience in others
    • You’re investing in the wellbeing and long-term capacity of your team

How we deliver

Evidence-based training grounded in adult learning principles, applied consistently to every engagement.

1. Initiate

Confirm outcomes, audience, schedule, and success measures.

2. Design and tailor

Shape content and scenarios to your workplace.

3. Deliver

Interactive, practical sessions online or in-person.

4. Evaluate and close

Capture feedback, measure impact, document improvements.

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Let's talk about your training needs

Tell us who you are and what you’re after — Ben or Lauren will get back to you.

Prefer to call? Phone us on (02) 6230 0266.

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