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Programmes for Individuals

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Build long term adaptability to sustain performance

Science-based programmes that equip your people with the essential skills needed to adapt, keep pace with change, and achieve sustainable performance.

Bringing strategy to life starts with energised, resilient individuals in roles where they can thrive and succeed. That takes deep self-awareness and essential self-management skills. But awareness alone isn’t enough. Real change comes when new behaviours are embedded. Our programmes develop the awareness and skills while also embedding the habits your people need to adapt to change, manage stress, and sustain performance, all while operating in systems designed to support them, not drain them, so they stay healthy, motivated, and employable.

The advantages of our approach

We don’t just deliver programmes; we design for real change.
Backed by science. Change-focused. Full-service partner.

Backed by science

Grounded in the latest research on sustainable careers, adaptability, and resilience.

Change-focussed

Designed using behavioural and implementation science to drive real change that sticks.

Full-service partner

From one-time training to strategic programme redesign and implementation, we meet you where you are.

Programmes for Individuals

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Behavioural Resilience

Helps people to skillfully manage their energy to live happy, healthy, and purposeful lives at work and at home.

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Emotional Resilience

Deepens people’s self-awareness of how they personally respond to stress, so they recognise their early signals and apply self-regulation and adaptive strategies when feeling overwhelmed.

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Mental Resilience

Develop nervous system regulation skills and adaptive strategies to navigate stress and build resilience.

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Career Competencies

Helps individuals develop the skills required to take charge of their careers and maintain their employability, enabling them to stay motivated, energised, and productive in their jobs.

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Career Motivation & Energy

Helps individuals assess where they currently stand in their career and what they need next. With insights from an evidence-based tool, they walk away with concrete, actionable steps to start taking ownership of their career.

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Success stories from our clients

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Helen Wray

Global Mental Health & Energy Lead | Mars Incorporated

Programmes:
Behavioural Resilience

“Zest for Work delivers high quality Energy Management learning programmes – both face to face and virtual – that supports us to shift behaviours and culture @ MARS to one that breathes and sustains high energy and wellbeing.”

Zests delivers the HPI Corporate Athlete training (internally branded as Behavioural Resilience) at Mars since 2018, everywhere in Europe and Russia. Over 1,000 employees were trained in 6 different languages either face to face and virtually since 2020. Their trainers are absolute experts in the field and provide the human touch needed during the virtual classrooms. I do not foresee us ever moving back to 100% face to face sessions!

Thanks to this programme, we are shifting behaviours and culture @ MARS to one that breathes and sustains high energy and well-being. Our course study data shows that pre-course only 13% of Associates were fully energised. 6 weeks post course, 45% of the participants reported to be fully energised. An increase of 245%.

On top of this, Zest moves beyond delivery, unburdening our team and functions as a strategic implementation partner by supporting our rollout expansion to new languages and locations worldwide. I love their flexibility, and also important for me, they are easy and fun to work with!

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Elyse Van der Sande

Customer Service Representative | Mars Incorporated

Programmes:
Emotional Resilience

"The Emotional Resilience programme helped in getting to know your inner self. Identifying your triggers before you enter the high survival zone and come up with good solutions to restore your energy level. The trainer was good and was very passionate."

The Emotional Resilience programme helped in getting to know your inner self. Identifying your triggers before you enter the high survival zone and come up with good solutions to restore your energy level. The trainer was good and was very passionate. There was room to ask questions and make it personal. Even though you are in a professional environment, the vibe was more informal and you felt comfortable to share.

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Annette Zweerman

Human Capital | Career development Lead | PwC

Programmes:
Career Competencies
Career Motivation & Energy

“Zest for Work helps us to kickstart, pilot and set up a career development initiative at PwC Netherlands. Throughout their people-centered and tailored Career Competencies programme and individual career coaching, our directors deeply reflect on their personal career aspiration and what it takes to self-steer their careers whilst sustaining motivation and energy.”

"Zest for Work helps us to kickstart, pilot and set up a career development initiative at PwC Netherlands. Throughout their people-centered and tailored Career Competencies programme and individual career coaching, our directors deeply reflect on their personal career aspiration and what it takes to self-steer their careers whilst sustaining motivation and energy. The Zest for Work coaches are highly professional and demonstrate outstanding facilitation and coaching skills in virtual and real-life environments, alongside scientific and cutting-edge subject matter expertise on sustainable careers.

Further, Yvon Golbach uses her broad experience in the field of Career development and supports us to move beyond delivery of interventions for individuals and facilitates the strategic implementation of our approach to successfully transition towards sustainable careers. She thinks on a strategic level about conditions for success and how to effectively create them. She understands our unique organisational challenges and provides practical ideas to overcome those. As an example, we organise HR Think Tank sessions to reinforce and strengthen the mindset of our HR team towards contemporary careers and to start identifying how that will affect our processes. Yvon is passionate about the topic and passes her energy on to others. What I like about working with her is that she can put things in perspective and she has a nice sense of humour."