Health and safety professionals will be learning about the importance of building mental resilience to improve wellbeing and reduce workplace stress at 3M’s next Safety Network Live event.
Guest speaker, Rob Archer, a chartered psychologist and coach from Cognacity, will be hosting an engaging and interactive workshop exploring the fundamentals of resilience, the psychology of decision making under pressure and the science of marginal gains.
Having honed his skills working with elite athletes, Rob will be drawing on his experience to show health and safety professionals how they can use the same principles to improve their own working lives.
The hour-long session will be spilt into three sections:
Rob Archer
One focus of the seminar will be the importance of recovery. While many people push themselves to work hard over a long period of time, Rob will explain why this can actually harm productivity and, in particular, decision-making. Instead, he will show how taking time to recover can be far more effective for productivity.
He will also be encouraging attendees to adopt the marginal gains theory, which was used by the British Cycling Team to help bring success in the last few Olympics. The principle is that if we can make small improvements to some of our habits – even just by one per cent – we get a significant increase when all the components come together over time.
Marginal gains can be found anywhere, but Rob believes that simple things such as taking a two-minute break every hour or leaving your desk for lunch can have a huge impact on a person’s wellbeing.
Speaking ahead of his workshop, Rob said: “Building resilience is incredibly important for health and safety professionals, as well as for their workforce. Understanding how your brain works can help you to be much more productive in your job and may also improve your life outside of work.
“My aim is that everyone who attends the workshop will leave with ideas about how to put what we have discussed into practice.”
The event will be taking place at the science-based technology company’s headquarters in Bracknell, Berkshire, on Tuesday 27 September 2016 and at Old Trafford, Manchester on Tuesday 4 October.
Sign up for your place to one of these free-to-attend events in Bracknell or Manchester.
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Interesting article and I am very keen to attend. unfortunately the links to registration don’t work !!!!!
Links don’t appear to work to sign up for this?
Link to resiliance workshop appears broken – plse provide
Regards
Is there access to information for person that cannot attend the event. I am in Australia but currently research resilience for a community care organisation. Most of our workers are outbased and face challenging behaviours both physical and verbal on a daily basis.
Please can you forward details of the Manchester seminar.
Hi all, apologies for the broken link – it has now been updated in the text and all the details can be found here: https://promotion.3m.eu/SafetyNetworkLive/en-gb?WT.mc_id=www.3M.co.uk/safetynetworklive