Virtual International
Business Week 2021
dedicated to “Mental
Toughness and Resilience
in Leadership” will be
an inspiring, practical
and exciting event with
professional experience
in an international
environment and “real-life”
business cases.
The purpose of this module is to develop the learner’s knowledge and skills related to the essentials
of Mental Toughness and Resilience, mental training interventions, stress management techniques
and building resilient teams.
Mental Toughness and Resilience in Leadership
Mental Toughness and Resilience is becoming a scarce commodity in leadership today. You can
practice Mental Toughness and become more resilient yourself to lead others through the
VUCA times. Mental Toughness and Resilience on an individual level, first and foremost, requires
self-awareness and self-management so managing others and building resilient teams and
organizations can happen later. This module was designed to help you assess and build your
personal resilience as a Leader. Simply, the more resilient you are, the better you can handle
stressful situations and support those around you. We want you to become freer and more
independent in your mental and emotional reactions so you can grow stronger and more resilient.
Takeaways
With the completion of this module, learners should be able to:
• describe and give examples of VUCA business reality
• describe potential challenges that Leaders face and responsibilities of running a business in
a VUCA environment
• identify leadership skills, approaches and behaviors necessary to face the four VUCA threats
and build long-term Resilience
• know the difference between Mental Toughness and Mental Sensitivity
• understand how to build Mental Toughness
• identify the connections between your beliefs and emotional consequences in your Leader’s role
• understand why resilience is so important for teams and organizations
• identify good practices of mental health and resilience in teams and organizations.
Sociologist, MBA Alumnus, Emotional Intelligence Expert, Psycho-social
Skills Master Trainer, ICF Coach and Senior Learning & Development
Consultant. She works for private cliental as well as public ones: business
and academic sector for over 15 years in the field of Positive Psychology,
Cognitive – Behavioral Therapy, the Applied Drama Method, Systemic
Coaching and Family Constellation in Business and Management – one
of the most efficient methods of holistic counseling to help in improving
emotional intelligence and well-being in business. Daria creates online
systemic education for individuals and teams to support their leadership
flow and the whole organizational systems vitality. She benefits from the
essentials of Systemic Coaching and Constellations by using a digital
version of physical resources that is straightforward and opens the field
of information and insights that characterize this method. Her clients
build deeper insights into the invisible dynamics that resource or limit
individuals, teams and whole organizational systems and explore their
complex issues through Constellations online.
Ms. Daria Lewandowska
MBA
Certified Business Trainer, Accredited ICF Coach, Mental Toughness
Consultant (MTQ48). Sociologist by education, legitime professional
mediator. Practitioner of direct sales and telesales.
Katarzyna holds a Master of sociology degree from the University of
Zielona Góra. She is a credentialed Mental Toughness Consultant
(MTQ48)- a diagnostic tool for mental toughness measurement. Rational
Behavior Therapy Practitioner.
Katarzyna brings many years of professional experience in direct
sales and telesales. She has over 8 years of cross-sectoral practice in
trainings, coaching and an extensive knowledge in the field of sales and
management. During her trainings she is equipped in practical tools and
sales techniques based on her own experience. She has conducted over
1600 training hours and over 800 hours of commercial and managerial
coaching. As a coach and trainer Katarzyna is specialized in growing
the effectiveness of sales people and managers. She writes and designs
her own training programs based on mental trainings in business, belief
trainings, effective habits and behaviors in business. She supports
managers and teams in achieving their goals with better results,
stopping to procrastinate, dealing easier with difficult situations, barriers
and failures, being more effective, building stronger relationships with
employees and clients.
Katarzyna Ujek
Business Trainer
Meet the Facilitators
Participation
conditions
Specifics, values and organization of remote
program work:
• constant contact with facilitators
• virtual Rooms
• great platform – Microsoft Teams
• certificates for participants
• skilled facilitation: two highly engaged and supportive
trainers who are experienced in Emotional Intelligence
and Mental Toughness
• highly experimental and practical sessions during
which you will learn more directly and powerfully from
your international peers’ experiences
• we are not going to learn how to think outside of the
box, we are going to learn that there is no box.
Registration deadline: 15th
February 2021
Cost of participation: € 40 per student.
* The University reserves the right to cancell the program
if at least 15 participants are not registered.
Wroclaw
the meeting
place
Wroclaw is the capital city of Lower Silesia, thought
of as the centre of student life in the south-eastern
Poland. Dubbed ‘the Meeting Place’ of Poland, Wroclaw
can certainly claim to be one of the nation’s most
forward looking cities. As a vibrant, historic city on the
forefront of change in New Europe is rapidly catching
the attention of tourists and businessmen. It is a strong
academic center, while the total population of the city
is over 650 000 people, there are about 140 000 students
studying at 22 institutions of higher education.
Wroclaw’s main attractions are: Market Square with
original gothic Town Hall, Ostrów Tumski island (the
oldest part of the city) with the Cathedral, Japanese
Garden, Multimedia Fountain, ZOO with new modern
Afrykarium, plenty of museums, parks and monuments.
Wroclaw is also called the city of dwarfs. They became
symbol of Wroclaw in commemoration of alternative
counter-culture, performers group Orange Alternative
which prepared a plenty actions against the communist
regime in Wroclaw.
There are more than one hundred small figurines of dwarfs
hidden in the city center. Come and try to find them all!
WSB University
in Wrocław
WSB University in Wrocław is a higher education institution founded in 1998. Together with 10 other
Banking Schools we create the biggest business schools group in Poland. Already at WSB
University in Wrocław study almost 17 000 students. The main characteristics of our brand are
friendliness and practical approach. It means that studies are pleasure on one hand and give
our students competitive market position on the other. According to that we offer huge number
of International activities: International Business Weeks, Erasmus+, Summer Schools, Youth
in Action, etc.
Furthermore our student have a chance to study in English and have a Bachelor Degree in Business
Administration or Software Development and Master Degree in International Management.
Thanks to this, Erasmus students study together with Polish ones widening their cultural and
educational horizons.
Monday, 29 March
Wednesday, 31 March
Tuesday, 30 March
Thursday, 1 April
Friday, 2 April
Day 1: This module defines what the term VUCA means and what is its antidote that you, as a Leader, can do to mitigate
the destabilizing effect of working in a VUCA environment. You will find practical and evidence-based ways to steer
yourself, your teams and organizations through constant change and build long-term Resilience.
• 09:30 – Official Welcome Session
• 10:00 - 11:30 – Lecture
• 11:45 - 13:00 – Practical classes
• 13:30 - 14:30 – Countries Presentation
Day 3: This Module has a key message for you as a Leader: while environmental factors can undoubtedly harm your life,
you do have some control over how you react and respond to those factors. For the most part, the more positively you
respond, the more positive your outcomes will be. This does not mean that no harm can come to someone with a positive
attitude but it also means that a positive attitude can get someone through rough times quicker and more effectively.
• 09:40 - 10:00 – Morning integration coffee
• 10:00 - 11:30 – Lecture
• 11:45 - 13:00 – Practical classes
Day 2: The world in which we live and work is full of pressures and stressors. Researchers question why in the face of the
same circumstances, some people can cope better with difficulties while others start to worry and even panic. Where does
the difference lie? Research conducted in business, education and sport shows that the key factor is Mental Toughness.
This module will define typical behaviors of high and low levels of Mental Toughness.
• 09:40 - 10:00 – Morning integration coffee
• 10:00 - 11:30 – Lecture
• 11:45 - 13:00 – Practical classes
• 13:30 - 14:15 – Inspiring guest lecture
• 14:30 - 16:30 – Lunch combined with specialities of national cuisine
Day 4: You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf. There will always be a certain amount of stress in your life
but you can choose to respond in skillful ways that give you the best chance of being happy, healthy, better performing
and more resilient. There are lots of positive things that you can do that will give you the strength and wisdom to deal with
challenges that come up. In this Module, I will equip you with suggestions that will make you feel stronger and more in
control of your daily life so that you are prepared to face the stress in your life.
• 09:40 - 10:00 – Morning integration coffee
• 10:00 - 11:30 – Lecture
• 11:45 - 13:00 – Practical classes
Day 5: Leaders think a lot about the economic impact on their business, a health risk to their teams and related business
implications but the mental health, another risk that is often omitted, should also be considered and taken into account
while offering solutions to the team and the people you are responsible for. Being a Resilient Leader implies finding ways to
be resilient mentally and emotionally because one of the worst things leaders can do is to affect other people’s emotional
states or experiences. This module will give you some insights on leadership behaviors promoting resilience and mental
health for teams and organizations.
• 10:00-11:30 Lecture
• 11:45-13:00 Practical classes
Tentative
programme
CONTACT DETAILS
Centre for International Cooperation
Jarosław Tomaszewski
Paula Zgłobicka-Januszczak
WSB University in Wrocław
Fabryczna Street 29-31,
53-609 Wroclaw, Poland
For more information please contact:
paula.zglobicka-januszczak@wsb.wroclaw.pl
phone: +48 71 356 16 16
www.wsb.pl/english