Free online event
How to foster resilience and wellbeing in the public service
Exclusively for public servants and policymakers
Thursday, Oct 19, 2023
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You'll learn how to:
- Understand the importance of building personal resilience in the public service
- Identify strategies for fostering a culture of wellbeing within your organisation
- Recognise the signs of burnout and stress and develop strategies to manage them
Speakers
Check at the responses and add your own to What support have you found helpful for your wellbeing at work?
Resources from the speakers
- How resilience can train you to become an optimist, article by Rosalinda Scalia
- 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People 15th Anniversary Edition, book by Stephen R. Covey
- Your body language may shape who you are, TED Talk
Apolitical resouces
- My wellbeing journey, article by Simon Skerritt
- Why you should complete that wellbeing survey, article by Yvonne Rinkart
- 26 ways to improve your wellbeing at work, article by Team Chaffinch, a group of Civil servants based in London and the East and South East of England
- Building emotional intelligence in the workplace, previous event recording
Resilience is a public servant’s least talked about superpower.
Let’s be honest: you joined government to make a difference in the world, but it can be a slog. Change can be slow and it takes dogged determination to see progress.
That’s why personal resilience is so important — getting back up and trying again.
Watch this free online event to discover strategies to cultivate resilience at a personal level. You’ll gain valuable insights on how to improve your own resilience and support others, whether you hold an official leadership role or not.
Who should watch:
This event is for any public servant or policymaker looking to develop better personal resilience and build a stronger, more supportive public service.
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Speakers
Rupert McNeil
UK Government’s Chief People Officer
United Kingdom
Rosalinda Scalia
Policy Officer in the European Commission
Belgium
Rupert McNeil, the UK Government’s Chief People Officer from 2015 to 2022, previously worked in HR in financial services and in professional services. He currently chairs Lincoln Storm Group Limited, a Lithium-ion battery recycling business and Optimal Organisational Outcomes LLP, a consultancy.
Rosalinda Scalia, policy officer in the European Commission in Bruxelles, joined the Directorate General for Research and Innovation in 2022 and is dealing with the Strategic Programming Sector for Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment. Linda is an agronomist by training and has a PhD on plant physiology. She has worked for several years as food inspector for the Italian Ministry of Agriculture before joining the Commission in 2015 in the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety. First she dealt with international bilateral relations and then with plant health policies, contributing to strengthening the EU food control system. Linda is particularly interested in fostering the European Project and the resilience of Member States in dealing with the climate crisis. She has Italian nationality but has studied and worked in US and Spain along her career, loving to be part of multicultural environments.
