Resilience Overview
Resilience means different things to different people but, for us, it’s all about performance. Ensuring that people can build on their job skills with a resilience toolkit that enhances their potential and delivers superior performance. Managing energy and creating balance in the key areas of mental, emotional and physiological performance and being able to manage these within a personal context and working environment.
The ability to get the best results from different people in different areas is also vital to organisational sustainability and growth. Leaders and managers have to have the competence and ability to cope with the challenges of business life so they deliver great performance, even in challenging circumstances. As competition increases so will the demands to deliver results and maximise team effort. To meet their targets, leaders will have to ensure they are getting the very best from themselves as well as their team. They need to not only unlock their performance potential, but also manage the performance of their teams and feel happy and fulfilled both inside and outside of work
Personal Resilience combines mental toughness, emotional intelligence and neuroscience techniques, which are then integrated with the latest concepts, theories and models from the top performers in the arts and elite sports. Our model of Personal Resilience allows for people to become more empowered in the areas of Stress Management, Pressure Management and Anxiety - the 'axis of evil' for burnout!
The organisation benefits from Personal Resilience through:
Higher performance levels leading to greater productivity
Improved morale and motivation
An increase in engagement
Retention of key employees
Reduced absenteeism
Reduced costs associated with ill-health and injury at work
A decrease in short and long term sickness
Meeting its Health and Safety obligations
The individual benefits from Personal Resilience through:
An increase in your ability to remain task-focused and be productive whilst experiencing challenge and pressure
Building knowledge and understanding as to how personal resilience levels relate to confidence, energy, management and performance improvement
Learning simple techniques to control your physiological response to pressure that will help maintain effective performance when feeling stretched
A rise in capacity to sustain performance and focus during change and the ability to lead yourself and others, through uncertainty more effectively
Greater control and self-management capabilities to positively influence people and performance
An improvement in energy, clarity, attitude and engagement
An increased ability to bounce back from setbacks, emerge stronger and more resourceful
We have fresh ideas about how people can bounce back (or forwards) and on building the grit and fortitude needed to carry on. Our Personal Resilience initiatives are tailored to our clients’ specific needs and we work with them to create the most effective solutions for their business. These range from the creation of effective, punchy, bite-size modules through to more substantive programmes.
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Listen to the Resilience Unravelled Podcast
“Russell’s podcast is eye-opening! ”
Dr Russell Thackeray has been building resilience in organisations for a number of years and knows that so many more people could benefit from what QED do. That’s why he decided to collect stories from ‘real’ people about their lives, challenges and learning and turn them into podcasts.
With over 250 episodes, Russell shares thoughts and ideas about resilience with different specialists. He provides a bigger picture of how building resilience can make a real difference, to help people who may be facing similar challenges.
You can access the podcasts on iTunes and other platforms, or listen on the website here.