#33 Resilience
Resilience This week we chatted about resilience. A great follow up conversation to lasts weeks focus on Mental Health in the Workplace. Paul lead this week and was honest to say he has had a week to forget...isolating after a family member tested positive for Covid (don't worry, they're fine), a lightning strike leading to no internet and any entertainment for home bound Children and being forced to work from home!! Paul was reflecting on his tough couple of weeks and was reading this article (https://positivepsychology.com/resilience-in-the-workplace) and thought it would not only be a timely conversation for him but also a great follow on from last week. The article summarised by saying... "Broadly speaking, resilience is the ability to ‘bounce back’ when encountering the challenges that are an inevitable part of life. The workplace presents a different range of stressors to employees. What is resilience in the workplace? Why is it even important? Can individuals even become more resilient anyway? The exciting thing about resilience is that it is a skill. Like any skill, with practice, resilience can be learned." We covered a few areas in this chat including- What does it actually mean? Why do we recruit for resilience? Is it essential (eg trading conditions or environmental conditions) or do we cover bad behaviour in the business by asking others to tolerate it by showing resilience?How can we develop it in our teams?How do we better support our teams?