Building Resilience @work!

Q: What is the single most important factor in determining whether a person is successful, satisfied and happy?

A: Resilience!

Stress? Recession? Change? Pressure? Deadlines? Crisis? Relationship challenges? Feeling flat?

Do any (or all!) of these apply to you? Most people would answer “yes”!

These are the inevitable facts of life! They happen to all of us!

It’s not about whether these will happen to you or not (because they will!) – it’s about your ability to cope with and bounce back from adversity that determines how productive and effective you are – it’s how RESILIENT you are, that counts!

Psychologists, scientists and people in general, have for decades wondered how it is that some people are able to bounce back from adversity whereas others bend and some break. How can some of us turn setbacks into positives and others, faced with similar circumstances, end up even worse off and suffering even more?

Recent research has shown that resilience is something that can be learned and developed and therefore can lead to greater productivity, effectiveness, happiness and in general, greater work and life outcomes.