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Raising Resiliency

Overview

This micro-learning series is based on the bestselling work of Jen Shirkani, author of Choose Resilience: Break Out of Your Comfort Zone Using the Power of Emotional Intelligence. Most of us want to be happy and comfortable in life, but what if staying comfortable was the very thing that is holding us back and keeping us from our true happiness?

Jen Shirkani challenges the notion that comfort is always a good thing, and instead inspires you to break out of your safe spaces to achieve personal and professional dreams. With the backdrop of her own story of struggle woven throughout the learning experience, Jen shares practical strategies for overcoming personal challenges using the MOST model – Motivation, Optimism, and Stress Tolerance..

Learning Objectives

  • To strengthen your emotional intelligence and build interpersonal skills, stamina, and resilience.
  • Build interpersonal skills, stamina, and resilience;
  • To embrace challenge as a positive catalyst for change.
  • Create strategies to increase your level of effectiveness through times of change.

Course Modules

  • Resiliency to the Rescue
  • Make the MOST of it
  • Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
  • Engage Yourself
  • Start Small
  • Find the Person Who Challenges You
  • Power of Gratitude
  • Build Tolerance for Stress
  • Tips from Super Survivors

About the Author

Jen Shirkani is a nationally recognized expert on emotional intelligence and a featured speaker at national and state conferences, universities, government agencies, and at business organizations around the world. She is the author of Ego vs EQ and Choose Resilience, guides for leveraging the power of emotional intelligence. In addition to emotional intelligence, she frequently speaks and writes about employee engagement, interviewing and selection, and coachability. She holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership. She has also been a frequent guest of several national radio programs, and has been featured in Bloomberg/Businessweek, Leadership Excellence magazine, Reader’s Digest, Inc.com, Business Insider, Publishers Weekly, Fast Company, and Upstart Business Journal. Based in Phoenix, Jen speaks globally to share her insights on how to make common sense more common.