Building Resilient Employees
Apr 06
Welcome back everyone. I hope you enjoyed a lovely break away from work (I didn’t even take my laptop home or switch on my blackberry) and spent some time with friends and family.
It was great. I had lunch with my family on Friday, I took my little sister to Luna Park and then had a Guitar Hero Party on Saturday night which was totally off the hook. It was great to be in the company of people that make me happy.
Previously I’ve posted about the need to eat well, get enough sleep and exercise in relation to mental health and general wellbeing. I’d like to take that a little bit further today and talk about developing resilient leaders at work.
So what is resilience anyway?
n.
The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.
The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity. (source)
The Resilience Institute talks about both Organisational Resilience and Individual Resilience.
A Resilient organisation is one which realises its own potential through nurturing the the ability of those working within it to:
- Bounce back from adversity
- Thrive on challenge
- Explore and reach their own full potential
- Have a positive impact on others
For an individual, Resilience is the ultimate set of life skills. Resilience Training is the journey towards knowledge and mastery of the body, heart, mind and spirit. With practice resilience becomes intuitive.
A resilient person learns how to:
- Remain calm and engaged under pressure
- Skilfully promote health and vitality
- Align and master emotions and mind
- Develop leadership and influence skills
- Live with meaning, purpose and exuberance
So already there are some of you thinking, yeah well that would be amazing but we can’t even get our employees to do performance reviews and is it HR’s job anyway?
Well each Business Partner’s role varies from organisation to organisation, but I don’t really limit things to what I think should or shouldn’t fall into my job category- I just try and focus on things that I think will make the biggest impact.
I think that having resilient employees like the ones described above would make my job in HR a lot easier and dramatically impact upon business results.
Have you done anything to assist employees in becoming more resilient?
