In the current financial climate, workplaces are forced to deal with growing challenges and difficulties including coping with change and uncertainty, re-structures and redundancies, staff difficulties, budget cuts and increasing targets and demands within a challenging marketplace.   These increased pressures are pushing up levels of stress, which unfortunately often results in a further worsening of work performance as a vicious cycle. 

Resilient attitudes and behaviours may represent the difference between success and failure at a particular task, including:

• Taking an active approach to problem-solving, rather than looking the other way and hoping the issue will resolve itself
• Thinking flexibly and being willing to see the same situation from different viewpoints. 
• Maintaining a positive attitude by looking at the overall picture and not just focusing on what's gone wrong
•  Committing to achieving goals and not giving up in despair at the first hurdle
•  Accepting situations constructively and realistically without looking round for the nearest person to blame

BUT, WHAT PEOPLE KNOW AND WHAT PEOPLE DO ARE OFTEN TWO VERY DIFFERENT THINGS!

Building resilience helps your staff access the knowledge, life skills and coping strategies they already possess but simply haven’t learned to use effectively.

Learning resilience skills can move individuals from feeling paralysed by a pressurised environment to coping effectively with a challenging workload, role, or even with a personal problem.  And this in turn helps them put stress in its proper place.