As news about Coronavirus dominates the headlines and people are experiencing the impact on their lives and work, they are increasingly experiencing waves of anxiety, panic and fear. Psychologists refer to these feelings of loss, trauma and persistent uncertainty as an ’emotional tsunami’ and warn of the impact that prolonged stress caused by the pandemic can have on emotional wellbeing, interpersonal relationships, physical health and work performance.

The objective

Staying Strong is an ideal tool to equip your employees to cope emotionally with the stress. Its focus is on strengthening resilience, optimism and ownership – a mindset that will positively impact employees’ work and lives far beyond COVID-19.

The programme provides:

• consistent messages of resilience and care creating a common language regarding wellbeing in your organisation
• HR and leaders with the tools and skills to demonstrate their care and positively impact the wellbeing of their employees
• a multi-layered blended approach with different implementation options.

Download our Staying Strong interactive leaflet to explore the content and benefits

The target group

The programme can be presented at different job levels, matching accredited facilitators from our team to the needs of each group.

Four implementation options:

Face to face facilitation: A one-day immersive workshop where employees get the opportunity to do a deep dive into the various topics or a condensed half-day session focusing on the key content of the programme.

Virtual facilitation: We can package Staying Strong in a way to meet your specific needs e.g. three x 90-minute sessions, two x 4-hour sessions, or four x 2-hour interactive, virtual sessions.

Train The Trainer: We equip your facilitators to present the Staying Strong programme inhouse (face to face or virtual presentation).

A cost-effective DIY toolkit to use in-house for entry-level employees

• Fifteen videos (5 – 7 minutes each) featuring short, powerful and relatable messages for use in team meetings. Delivered by inspirational, skilled facilitators with extensive use of powerful imagery that makes messages easy to understand and remember. You can either show them as is or we can equip your leaders with the skills and tools to the videos to facilitate team conversations on the topics.

• Leader’s conversation guide: A step-by-step guide that equips leaders of teams to have short, focussed and meaningful conversations with their teams on each video theme.

• A one-page InfoSheet: A simple, practical and relevant summary of the key video takeouts to review and share with family and friends, includes application exercises.

 Here is a powerful video featuring extracts of two videos in the DIY Toolkit

Staying Strong is designed by Free To Grow, experts in learning and communication with 27 years’ experience in this field.

Staying Strong can be adapted to suit the needs of all job levels, creating a common language re wellbeing across your organisation.

The diversity in our team of facilitators enables us to select a facilitator that will be suited to the needs and profile of any group in your organisation

The programme is a natural foundation for our other engagement and personal mastery programmes

Relevant and practical content makes messages ‘land’.  The fresh, engaging and image-rich methodology makes them ‘stick’.

Our excellent design capability enables us to customise the content or delivery format to meet your specific needs.