CEO or Business Owner: How to improve resilience and grow your business using simple tools

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I hope this newsletter finds you in good health and high spirits.

Hello everybody, my name is José Pereira and today we are going to continue talking about my newsletter referred to as Building Resilience in the Workplace

In the last Article, we were talking about Fostering a Better Workplace for Enhanced Performance and Growth

In this new article and as a complement to the videos I have been posting referring to how to Build Up resilience in the workplace, we bring this article referred to: CEO or Business Owner: How to improve resilience and grow your Business using simple tools

Resilience can help you and your teammates reach peak performance at work. It contributes to a company's success by encouraging its employees to face challenges confidently and learn from their mistakes. Understanding what resilience is and how you can foster it in yourself and your team can help you build an adaptable, competent workforce.

In this article, we discuss resilience in the workplace and its importance along with tips to boost your strength and develop a resilient workforce.

What is resilience?

Resilience is the ability to recover from a challenge and to use that challenge as a learning opportunity. In the workplace, resilience can mean solving problems, facing challenges, and?recovering from mistakes. For example, an employee may show resilience when they experience a traumatic event and then return to work or when someone has difficulty completing a project and still meets the deadline.

With the advice of Expert Coaches, the CEO or the Managers can offer resources that can improve workplace resilience and protect their employees' mental health, like?paid time off and seminars on how to build resilience. Employees need to build resilience in themselves by trying new tasks and practicing humility, while managers can promote resilience in their teams by creating a safe environment for mistakes.

Why is resilience in the workplace important?

Resilience can help employees manage stress and motivate them to face challenges with determination. Here are several reasons that highlight the importance of resilience in the workplace:

?Aids job satisfaction:?Resilience can help employees feel more satisfied with their job because it provides them with methods of tackling stress and alleviating work-related anxiety.

?Improves employee self-esteem:?Resilient employees may have better self-esteem because they can handle the challenges they face at work with confidence and positivity.

?Increases employee engagement:?Resilient employees know that facing challenges at work can be easier when they can lean on their colleagues for support, so it can help teams develop positive workplace relationships.

?Frames challenge as lessons:?Resilient employees view challenges as lessons they can use to build their skills and reduce their mistakes, and they recognize workplace challenges as opportunities for growth.

?Improves communication:?Resilient employees can accept feedback openly and work to move past conflicts with coworkers, and resilience fosters an environment that encourages open-minded dialogue in response to conflict.

?Supports innovation:?Resilient employees feel more comfortable with the idea of failure, so these employees may be open to taking well-informed risks within the workplace by trying new things, sharing new ideas, and leading team projects.

How does resilience impact the workplace?

Resilience in the workplace can encourage a positive?work environment and enable employees to feel more confident and mentally tough. Here are several ways that resilience can make a positive impact on the workplace:

Increases productivity

Resilient employees can assist their coworkers, enabling teams to achieve success within the workplace. The overall productivity of an organization or team can increase when employees support one another.

Creates leaders

Resilience can be a core characteristic of leaders because it enables them to overcome challenges effectively. When a workplace encourages resilience in its leaders, it can create positive examples for employees to follow. These leaders recover quickly from mistakes and challenges, helping keep employees motivated and training them for future leadership opportunities.

Encourages adaptability

Resilience encourages individuals to accept and adjust to changes. This skill is essential because it enables employees to adapt to workplace changes quickly and return to work with limited disruption.

For example, a workplace may transition from working in-person to working remotely. Resilient employees can adjust their styles or behaviors to demonstrate their adaptability. This flexibility enables them to adapt quickly, keeping the quality of their work unaffected.

Tips for building your resilience

If you want to become more adaptable and confident at work, consider implementing the following tips:

?Set a Balance between work and life.?Having a suitable work-life balance and taking time to care for yourself could help you remain more positive at work. Try to get enough sleep and manage your stress.

?Reflect on challenges.?After managing a challenging situation at work, take time to think about the situation and journal so that you're more knowledgeable next time. Reflect on what components of the situation made you emotional and what decisions were most effective in overcoming the difficulty.

?Positive Mindset.?Try to show up to work with a positive mindset, eager to collaborate with your teammates. The more passionate and engaged you are at work, the better you may be able to navigate unexpected circumstances.

?Build up better communication and Trust.?At work, you might face shared challenges you handle alongside your team and manager. Scheduling one-on-one meetings and developing a stronger relationship with the people you work with could help you feel more comfortable taking risks and developing solutions with them.

?Focus on what's in your control.?Some factors that may affect you at work, like other people's moods, macroeconomic conditions, or client requests, may be outside your control. Remember that you're only responsible for your response to the circumstances.

?Take breaks.?Controlling overwhelming and burnout is vital when building resilience. Take regular breaks in your workday and take advantage of any time off you may receive to rest and unplug from the industry.

How to boost resilience in the workplace

If you're a manager or executive, you can use the following tips to help boost your team's resilience in the workplace:

?1. Set a positive example

A workplace that encourages resilience may find it helpful to have capable leaders who demonstrate resilience to their employees. Employees who witness this trait acted out daily can learn from this positive example.

As a result, they might feel more motivated to strengthen their resilience at work. When leading or working with others, you can showcase strong leadership skills?and resilience by establishing workplace priorities, facing challenges confidently, and managing stress constructively.

?2. Consider resilience training through expert coaches

Hiring expert coaches that can offer resilience training in the workplace and can teach you and your team how to handle stress positively, face challenges professionally, and return to work after experiencing hardship.

Look for professional motivational speakers who can inspire your team and teach them how to build resilience, or consider having your colleagues and team members create presentations about how they use this skill at work. During the training, discuss resilience, its necessity at work, and how team members can build it.

?3. Leaders must understand employees need

Managers can help team members build resilience by understanding their needs and areas for improvement. Learning about these struggles is essential because resilience aims to make individuals stronger by helping them face challenges. When managers understand their employees' obstacles, distractions, or challenges, they can learn how to help them overcome those issues.?

You can learn about employees' needs by asking them to complete surveys detailing their challenges or giving them an opportunity for candor in?one-on-one meetings Once you have more information, you can begin developing plans to build resilience and foster a positive work environment for everyone on the team.

?4. Acknowledge failures

When acknowledging failures in the workplace, managers can help their team recognize and accept mistakes or issues objectively. This tactic can help promote resilience because it supports employees during challenging times and emphasizes mistakes as neutral.

Managers can address failures by encouraging employees to learn from their mistakes and use any disappointment they may feel as motivation. This motivation enables them to move past their mistakes and make improvements for future success. Encouraging employees to accept and work through their failures can help foster self-resilience within the workplace.

?5. Offer incentives to volunteer

Volunteering in the workplace serves as an opportunity for employees to challenge themselves and step outside their comfort zones. Taking on new or difficult projects or tasks can help build their resilience.

Employees may feel more eager to take these opportunities when their managers or team leaders offer incentives. For example, consider offering an extra day of paid time off to individuals who volunteer to complete a project that requires them to step up as a leader and organize a project timeline.

?6. Provide outlets for stress

Offering stress-relief opportunities to employees can help build resilience by giving them time to recover between projects. Here are some stress outlets that team leaders or managers can incorporate into the workplace:

• Offer wellness training:?Managers may consider contracting expert coaches in wellness to teach their team members how to relieve stress. They can encourage these habits by scheduling classes before, after work, or during lunch breaks.
• Coordinate support groups:?Through contracting of expert coaches that can build up team-building sessions in the workplace will allow employees to share their challenges and encourage one another in the workplace. When employees feel supported by their colleagues, it can help them face workplace challenges with more confidence.
• Enable workplace flexibility:?Managers may implement more flexible work arrangements like opportunities to work from home or take half-days. Providing employees with more flexibility or supporting their ability to take breaks can help reduce stress and burnout.
• Play relaxing music:?Playing relaxing music in the workplace may help create a calmer environment for employees. When employees feel relaxed, it can help reduce their stress. Depending on the workplace, managers may play music in lunchrooms, break rooms, or lobbies.
• Encourage affirmations:?Affirmations can help build an individual's confidence and encourage positive thinking in the workplace. Managers may display signs or posters throughout the office with helpful and positive affirmations or email affirmations to their team members.

Overall having a better workplace will enhance the performance of your business and it will boost it and make it grow

Remember, your company's success is driven not only by financial gains but also by the growth and well-being of our employees.

Together, let's create a workplace that thrives, embraces challenges, and emerges even stronger.

We can help your Company or Leadership if you’re going through any adversity that is affecting Morale, Performance, Productivity, and well-being and is an impediment to growing your Business and Helping to improve your company’s performance and communications.

My experience as a Hostage in a Hostile Foreign Country for 5 years broadened my vision as a survivor and with a wealth of knowledge of more than 35 years of experience, I was CEO and CFO in some Oil and Gas International Multinationals. The combination of both experiences broadened my mind and I can help CEOs and Business Owners to make their businesses succeed, thrive, be successful, and grow, through my unique coaching program that we developed after my 40 years of combined experience called LIFE PILLS FOR A SURVIVOR GUIDE - LPSG PROGRAM as an Adversity and Resilience Coach and Motivational Public Speaker.

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Jose Pereira

Adversity and Resilience Coach and Motivational Public Speaker

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