Workplace courage isn’t about taking unnecessary risks. It’s about having the confidence to speak up when it matters, take ownership, navigate difficult conversations, and step forward when opportunities arise.
It’s a practical workplace skill that can strengthen your performance, professional relationships, reputation, and career growth.
In this course, you’ll discover what courage at work really looks like and learn how to turn it into everyday action. You’ll explore how to assess which risks are worth taking, communicate with greater confidence and assertiveness, and respond constructively when situations become challenging.
Through practical tools and real-world strategies, you’ll learn how to own mistakes, voice your ideas and concerns, handle difficult conversations, strengthen professional connections, and take initiative. Along the way, you’ll strengthen your communication and teamwork skills, build credibility, and expand your professional influence.
By developing everyday courage, you’ll be better equipped to take ownership, foster strong and respectful working relationships, and step forward with confidence, integrity, and purpose.
Build your confidence to speak up, take action, and grow.
Four Essential Skill Paths
to Unleash Your Courage at Work
- Understand courage at work
Audience: everyone | Duration: 46 min
What is real workplace courage—as opposed to being reckless or taking on undue risk? Can one actually build courage like a muscle—and if so, how? This course charts your path forward in discovering and harnessing workplace courage. - Harness courage for personal growth
Audience: everyone | Duration: 47 min
Why is courage an integral part of boosting your workplace performance, building grit, and enhancing your career path? This course reveals stories of how courage can be harnessed for personal growth and offers concrete strategies for doing so yourself. - Bring courage into work relationships
Audience: everyone | Duration: 45 min
Inhibition and fear can stand in the way of sparking and building on the workplace relationships that make you successful. Similarly, it requires bravery to deal with the conflicts that arise with colleagues or the situations when someone on the team—and why not you—should stand up and show real leadership. This course reveals the strategies for courage that can supercharge your workplace relationships. - Communicate courageously
Audience: everyone | Duration: 53 min
It’s not always easy to share your ideas or speak up with concerns in the workplace. But contributing in these and other ways are vital to you and your team’s health and performance. This course shows how to find the courage to communicate, when warranted, in even the most difficult situations.
Available in two languages (American English and French), these four Skill Paths are designed to support the needs of global teams.
For a broader learning experience, we recommend accessing the corresponding Path to Performance, available in American English and French (If you require other languages, feel free to contact us.):
Unleash Your Courage at Work
Audience: everyone | Duration: 3hrs.
Courage is a powerful driver of performance and career growth. This course shows you how to harness courage to step up to your responsibilities, communicate more assertively, and build balanced, respectful relationships at work.
You will learn practical tools for strengthening teamwork, enhancing your professional reputation, and leading with confidence and integrity. By developing everyday courage, you will position yourself as a credible, reliable contributor—ready to grow, take ownership, and advance in your career.
4 Skill Paths | 1 Path to Performance | Actionable tools
Guided by personal development expert Gill Hasson
Gill Hasson is a tutor, trainer, and author specializing in personal development, mental health, and wellbeing. She has written more than 30 books covering topics such as mindfulness, emotional intelligence, confidence, resilience, communication skills, and positive thinking.
Her publications include the widely read Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, Positive Thinking, and Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace, as well as the Sunday Times-bestselling How to Deal with Difficult People. Through her writing, she helps individuals develop practical skills to strengthen their wellbeing, relationships, and effectiveness in all areas of life.
In addition to her books, Gill Hasson designs and delivers courses, workshops, and corporate video content for education and training organizations, businesses, and NGOs. Her work is driven by a strong commitment to helping people realize their potential, build confidence, and recognize their abilities.
She has also designed and presented several programs for CrossKnowledge on topics including emotional intelligence, mindfulness, mental health and wellbeing, and courage in the workplace.