What Makes a Resilient Person?

How resilient do you think you are?

It’s National Stress Awareness Month in April, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to talk more about resilience.

Most of us probably feel like we are pretty resilient, and when we are faced with unexpected events we often have no choice but to dig deep. But, it is a surprisingly frequently requested training session in organisations.?

At the start of the pandemic, everyone was suddenly wanting quick fixes to help their people become resilient overnight. (And everyone was suddenly an expert, right?) However, this wasn’t the best time to strengthen the brain in this way. You want to be investing in resilience before you actually need to draw down on it!?

I have a friend who is one of the most resilient people I know, and yet after years of sleep deprivation even she is being tested in terms of how she responds to life’s challenges.?

Resilience is about successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.

Greater resilience is associated with longevity, better physical and mental health outcomes? and a better quality of life.

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Why Resilience Matters At Work

Resilience is at the core of how your employees approach work and life.

Resilience provides a strong baseline from which your employees can tackle stressful events. On top of this, having a series of tools that they can use to deal with stress in the moment builds on this resilience, and helps them to reduce the physiological and mental consequences of their body’s stress response, therefore sustaining their performance even when under pressure.?

With resilience, your employees will have:

• Improved health and productivity
• Better conflict management
• Greater ability to deal with pressure
• A culture of emotional intelligence

So how can we build it?

How To Build Resilience

Building resilience is a slow and continual process of brain networking which equips people with a series of behaviours and thought processes which, overtime, strengthen their core ability to overcome and prosper from the negative and difficult events in their daily life.

Rather than resilience being something that is fixed, it is something that is shaped every day and is a dynamic process.

?? Our Stress and Resilience programme is about creating a workforce that is able to face challenges and adversity with a strength of mind which maximises their productivity and well- being.??

The learning exercises offered within this two-part programme are designed to equip your employees with a toolkit which builds their inner resilience over time as well as enabling them to cope with stress in the moment. Get in touch with us at Synaptic Potential to learn more.

Why do some people struggle and become weighed down when dealing with negative or stressful events, while others hardly notice?

The answer has two parts. The first is resilience, and the second is stress management.

• Train your employees to build up their emotional and mental strength so that they can easily overcome whatever work and life throws their way.?
• Equip your staff to have coping strategies to deal with moments of stress and adversity so that they can manage the physiological sensations that could cause their thoughts and feelings to spiral out of control.?

With healthy resilience, you don’t just survive in the face of adversity - you thrive off it.

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