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‘The capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe, to bounce back to homeostasis after a disruption and to use exposure to stress to improve resistance to future negative events’
The ability to recover, re-find your equilibrium and learn from ‘shocks to the system’ is key to your resilience over the long term
It is the ability to "Keep calm and carry on" versus the alternative of "panic and freak out"
Resilience is not "toughness"
Tree blowing in the wind
The tree blowing in the wind represents resilience. It bends in the wind and remains healthy despite the environmental conditions. Resilience is not the same as being tough.
Uprooted tree
An ancient tree may be considered to be tough, however "toughness" may become brittle in unexpected circumstances. Previous wisdom and experience may no longer be relevant.
Resilience at all levels
Resilience can be considered at all levels of a system and is vital to both sustainability and adaptability at each level.
Ensure that people have the skills to fix ‘bumps’ as they occur, to be clear about expectations and to retain trust in each other when the going gets tough.
Allow people to connect within and across organisations and communities and have clear practices for maintaining stability and for transforming, according to the need of the moment
Personal resilience
The ability to maintain personal resilience is a vital leadership capability, regardless of role, seniority or organisation/system.
Personal resilience:
Prevents personal burn-out and supports long term health
Allows you to rebalance in difficult circumstances, so that you have a more positive impact on the people around you
Ensures that you role model effective self-care and promote resilience in others
Helps you to identify ‘resilience gaps’ in others and so support them in their own development
Introducing the Leading Libraries series. It covers the findings from the C21st Public Servant research, the origins of the four 'Leading for' capabilities and explains how to use the materials.
This set introduces you to resilience and why it is important for leaders. It covers emotional resilience; mental resilience; relationship resilience and social resilience.
It covers the key concepts of dialogue and why it is important for leaders, listening and inquiry skills, an introduction to 'conversational moves' and how to create a space for dialogue.
Emphasising the need for inclusive practice in our services and communities. It covers the foundations of inclusion, barriers to inclusion, power and privilege and allyship skills.
Building creativity and design skills for leaders. It covers the innovation cycle, diagnosis and perspective shifting skills, creative idea generation and safe-to-fail experimentation.
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