resilience

Having a resilient team helps to ease the tension that “just-in-time” course corrections create. Here are three things you can do to build resilience in your team.

To facilitate more robust anticipation-work, the first step is a step-back in order to confront reality and what can go wrong, with uncompromising objectivity. It also helps to educate staff about 'calculated risk-taking' and empower them to experiment.

We often work with managers who, although they might on the surface appear to be successful and confident, have recounted how, in some situations, they feel like ‘driven people’, like they were no longer in control of their inner world. The situations in which this happens are typically marked by high pressure or insecurity. This account describes the typical effect of inner beliefs, which also constitute a risk factor, both for one’s inner mental balance and for one’s ability to bounce back when faced with setbacks.

Recent events global events remind us of the importance of resilience. Resilience refers to our ability to ‘bounce back’ after disruption, change, or adversity, and to come out stronger on the other side.