Building Resilient Teams
Resilience: “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness”
Changes in the world are significant. Competition, technological advances and high expectations from society (consumers, customers, stakeholders) are ever increasing, placing greater demand on our ability to innovate, create and outperform our competition. To flow with change, we must think differently about the skills necessary to anticipate, adapt and overcome challenges in the path ahead.
Resilience in Organisations
Resilience is a cornerstone of high performance behaviour. When an organisation and its people possess resilience, the mission at hand becomes more achievable. Challenges are responded to swiftly and with a collective growth mindset and a healthy, positive approach. When poor resilience exists, challenges are faced with a range of characteristics that extend from individualism to a culture of blame, anxiety, stress, boredom and general apathy. The path to a resilient organisation lies in the following:
A clearly articulated vision and strategy that fosters belief from employees.
A psychologically safe culture that is open to risk and failure as necessary steps to creation.
A focus on health & wellbeing as a key lever for high performance.
Structure and process that support achievable outcomes - clear goals, immediate feedback, a balance between opportunity and capacity.
A people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and rewards the right behaviours.
We help build resilient teams and organisations
When we understand the triggers of poor resilience, we can create personal, team and environmental (culture and society) based strategies to reverse the cycle.
When we understand what makes us resilient, we can create strategies to improve these skills personally, in our teams and environmentally (culturally and socially).
Manavale’s framework of resilience
Our work is fed by a growing pool of research and knowledge in the field of resilience. This is underpinned by three main sources: academic studies, field based research (sports, organisations and children), studies with high & low performing teams. We draw attention to the significant body of work undertaken by Dr Al Siebert PhD (particularly is his books: The Resiliency Advantage and the Survivor Personality) and also studies into positive and ‘flow’ psychology, particularly the work of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi.
How it works
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