Building Challenge-Readiness: Strategies for Sustainable Resilience

Employees’ ability to operate effectively in challenging and turbulent environments is a competitive advantage for organizations and a contributor to positive engagement and reduced burnout. Helping people build, sustain, and apply their resilience over the long run requires a combination of strategies. Designed for internal and external practitioners who are charged with increasing organizational effectiveness during change and supporting the well-being of employees, this program will provide practical frameworks and guidance for action. We will focus on four areas: job analysis/selection, learning and development, demand management, and systemic/cultural/leadership support, using case examples, interactive discussions, and supporting evidence to lay out a comprehensive model and approach. We will share real-life examples of how one high-performing organization has applied these strategies in practice and provide opportunities for participants to evaluate current organizational practices and identify priorities for action.

Delivery Mode: In Person

Intended Audience

This seminar is intended for a general audience at a postgraduate level; no specific content knowledge is required.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the range and type of challenges that people encounter in organizations. 

• Compile a list of tools and mindsets that play a role in helping people effectively address challenges. 

• Analyze four approaches to incorporate into an organizational strategy for challenge-readiness.

• Evaluate current organizational practices for building challenge-readiness and create an action plan. 

Agenda

Continuing Education (CE) Credits

This seminar is eligible for 3.0 continuing education credits for psychologists. To qualify for these credits, the entire program must be attended. There is no partial credits available. SIOP will email CE letters 30 days after the session to the individuals who responded "Yes" to question #1 on the post-event evaluation.

For more information about continuing education for psychologists, please visit the American Psychological Association at http://www.apa.org/education/ce

Your Presenters

Linda L. Hoopes, Pd.D.

Linda L. Hoopes, Ph.D. is the founder and president of Resilience Alliance, an Atlanta-based training and consulting firm. Linda received her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Tennessee, and an AB in Psychology from Davidson College. She has served on the faculties of several institutions, including Rutgers, Georgia Tech, and Colby College. She is licensed as a psychologist in the state of Georgia and is past president of the Atlanta Society of Applied Psychology and a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. In addition to her work and academic history, she brings many other influences to her work including music, photography, sailboat racing, and massage therapy. 

Prior to founding Resilience Alliance in 2007, Linda spent seventeen years at ODR/Conner Partners, a consulting and training firm focused on the successful execution of organizational change. She led the development of methodology and assessments, including the Personal Resilience Profile which has been used by more than 100,000 people around the world. She continues to work with clients as a speaker, facilitator, consultant, and coach on resilience, organizational overload, human energy sustainability, and related topics. She is the author of three books: Prosilience: Building Your Resilience for a Turbulent World, which won the 2018 EPIC award for best nonfiction book, Managing Change with Personal Resilience, and Embracing Another Normal: Resilience Stories and Strategies for Raising Children with Disabilities (coauthored with Kris Burbank).

Robert R. Hoffman, Ed.D.

Robert R. Hoffman, Ed.D. is Director, Global Onboarding and US Lead at Novartis, a multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Switzerland that focuses on developing and manufacturing innovative drugs in areas including oncology, rare diseases, neuroscience, and immunology. Consistently ranked in the global top five, Novartis is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Bob received his M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from The University of Akron in 1982, and his Ed.D. in Executive Leadership in Human Resources Development from The George Washington University in 1997. 

Since joining Novartis in 2001, Bob has had a range of roles in Leadership, Organization Development, Talent Acquisition, and Change Management, including support for the transformation of Novartis’ global HR function, organizational acquisitions, culture change, process improvement, and organizational redesign. He has played a lead role in developing the organization’s change management strategy and resources and is an experienced and valued consultant to senior leadership teams across the organization.