Resilient skills

Soft skills, core skills, human skills - call them what you want, but we know just how valuable they are, and how much they are in demand.

You have these skills already, and we're here to help you take them to the next level.

 
 
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Resilient Skills programme

The Resilient Skills programme is a personal development resource developed for Edinburgh Napier. It provides training on a wide range of topics that focus on personal productivity, professional effectiveness and personal resilience.

The training is video based, and all the resources are available whenever you need them, delivering the right training at the right time.

Log in to the Resilient Skills programme on Moodle using the enrolment key: Skills

Log in to the Resilient Skills programme
 
 

What's included in the programme?

Personal productivity

  • Goal setting
  • Work planning
  • Time management
  • Procrastination
  • Sustainable habits
  • Productivity

Professional effectiveness

  • Effective teams
  • Conflict approaches
  • Navigating change
  • Problem solving
  • Effective proposals and pitches
  • Project management

Individual resilience

  • Operating styles
  • What's your 'why?'
  • Performance and talent
  • Mindset
  • Feedback
  • Overwhelm
  • Emotional intelligence
 
 
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Why develop your resilient skills?

We know change is constant and that the world will present you with both challenges and opportunities. To meet these challenges and make the most of these opportunities, you will need a range of tools, skills and aptitudes.

But it's not that simple - the mix of tools that are effective will be different for each of us, and the mix will change over time. So how can you prepare for this? What you need is a comprehensive toolkit that grows with you. That's what the Resilient Skills programme provides, and that's why we built it.

 

We Are Napier podcast

There are many of us, and we're everywhere. Our 'We Are Napier' podcast gives you an insight into what alumni have done beyond Edinburgh Napier and what skills have proved invaluable for them.

It might just give you a pointer or two on where you could go next!

Check out the 'We Are Napier' podcast on YouTube
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