Managing Personal Resilience
Managing Resilience
Managing Personal Resilience
Personal resilience is the ability to cope with extreme stress-provoking events without experiencing any personal stress signs or symptoms. Resilience training can help build personal resilience to withstand such events without developing stress-related problems.
Interested in Resilience? Find out more in:
Professor Derek Mowbrays Guide to Personal Resilience and,
Professor Derek Mowbrays Guide to Corporate Resilience
Professor Derek Mowbrays Guide to the Managers Role in Resilience
Personal Resilience ELearning Programme
Click here to download Prof Mowbrays paper Strengthening Personal Resilience – a programme to improve performance
The key elements of personal resilience are:
Click here to see Professor Derek Mowbray talking about the 8 elements of Personal Resilience.
Threats to personal resilience
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Primary threats |
Secondary threats |
Tertiary threats |
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Conflict |
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Harassement |
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Bullying |
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Culture |
Discrimination |
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Organisations |
Autocratic leadership |
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Change |
Intimidation |
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Mergers |
Insecurity |
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Leaders |
Acquisitions |
Lack of personal control |
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Managers |
Collapse |
Job insecurity |
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People |
Growth and expansion |
Fear |
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Downsizing |
Poor performance |
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Rules |
Isolation |
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Structure |
Excess demands |
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Ambiguity |
Boredom |
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Loss and bereavement |
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Accidents |
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Illness |
Impact of threats to wellbeing and performance
- Increased costs
- Under performance
- High sickness and absence
- High staff turnover
- Reduced profits
- Poor quality
- Lower market share
- Recruitment difficulties
- Negativity
Resilience Assessment
Undertaking a staff resilience survey will establish how resilient your workforce is against the threats to wellbeing and performance and will identify those in need of resilience training. Click here to try our on-line Resilience Assessment Questionnaire.
If you would like to use our resilience questionnaire, or any of our other assessments, in your organisation, please email us using the contact-us form below or call 01242 241882.
Click here for more information Building Resilience
Personal Resilience Training
Resilience training will:
- Improve engagement of staff with their work
- Help the workforce cope effectively with change
- Enable managers and staff to cope better in the face of challenges
- Enable individuals to face challenges openly and with confidence
- Maintain a determination to succeed.
MAS provides in house training in building personal resilience both for managers and for the workforce. We also have a programme for Corporate Resilience aimed at senior managers and a programme entitled The Managers Role in Resilience for middle and line managers.
Cognitive coaching, learning sets and facilitation
MAS also provides services including Cognitive Coaching to individuals and small groups of managers in building personal resilience and developing the behaviours needed to provide a robust workforce.
Publications
See our articles and white papers on resilience at work.
Guides
See our Guides on Resilience and Wellbeing and Performance.
Resilience ELearning Programme
Find out more about our Resilience ELearning Programme
Contact us
Call us now on 01242 241882 or contact us to discuss how we can help strengthen the resilience of your workforce!
